XP Accessibility Options

[Mitooo]

Hello,
i do have a windows xp installed on my laptop
when i go to start >> all programs >> accessories
i can't find accessibility options, it starts with "communications"
what shall i do to add accessibility ???

 

[zigzag3143]

Hello,
i do have a windows xp installed on my laptop
when i go to start >> all programs >> accessories
i can't find accessibility options, it starts with "communications"
what shall i do to add accessibility ???

They are on the original XP install disk. What happened to them here?

 

[Mitooo]

the version of xp i downloaded is modified i think
& the sysoc.inf doesn't have accessopt line
is there is anyway to add accessibility ?

 

[Mitooo]

if i did a sp3 update, shall this fix it ?

 

[alphanumeric]

Try Control panel > add remove programs > windows components. It might ask for the CD so if yours was modified with nlite or something similar it may not work.

 

[Mitooo]

yes it's modified with nlite
i figured this out from sysoc.inf file located in c:\windows\inf
so, if i downloaded a SP3 update from microsoft & installed it, shall this fix those disabled programs ?

 

[Mitooo]

yes it's modified with nlite
i figured this out from sysoc.inf file located in c:\windows\inf
so, if i downloaded a SP3 update from microsoft & installed it, shall this fix those disabled programs ?

 

[alphanumeric]

Hard to say, SP3 might not even install on your modified setup. The service pack only updates select files and adds some features, it doesn't reload the whole OS. It's a bunch of updates, etc. I'm not up to speed with nlite so I don't know if it actually strips the features off of the install image or just prevents them from being installed. If it just prevents them from being installed you should be able to put them back from add remove programs. Try it anyway the worst that will happen is you get an error when windows can't find the files on the CD. I'd install SP3 anyway just for security reasons.

 

[Mitooo]

i installed sp3 successfully, but still can't find accessibility settings

 

[Mitooo]

now when i go to add/remove >> windows components >> an error "setup was unable to open information file fxsocm.inf" >> "The specific error code is 0x2 at line 0"

but the sysoc.inf file is no longer showing edited by nlite, so i think it's now genuine, but i need to access windows components but it shows an error as explained above

 

[alphanumeric]

You are in an area outside of my knowledge. I'm guessing SP3 overwrote the file. It probably assumed certain things would be there but they aren't. They were removed by nlite. If you can get your hands on a real XP CD you could try doing a repair. If that doesn't work re-install XP with a unmodified CD. You may want to wait a while and see if somebody else posts to this thread with some better options.