User Account is blank and gives file not found error

Got a problem, here's where it started:

1) I have one account on my XP-Home computer: Me

2) I recently attempted to install a wireless printer and it failed
saying that I didn't have administrative privileges. In the 5 years
I've owned this computer that's the first time I've gotten that error.

3) So I went to Control Panels - User Accounts to see what was
up...only I get an error "The system cannot find the file specified"
and there are no users shown in the applet. I get the same problem
when I launch the applet from the command line with -nusrmgr.cpl- or
with -mshta.exe "res://C:\WINDOWS\system32\nusrmgr.cpl/nusrmgr.hta"-

4) Based on some posts on various sites I tried:
-regsrv32 /i mshtml- ... this returns an error "mshtml was loaded, but
the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found. mshtml does not
appear to be a .DLL or .OCX file." So the original problem isn't fixed
an I seem to have uncovered another.

5) by contrast these commands are successful:
-regsrv32 /i nusrmgr.cpl
regsrv32 jscript-

6) Since I still can't use User Accounts, I downloaded and ran
useraccfix.vbs. It ran successfully but doesn't solve the problem.

So I give up...got any more ideas. Since I'm not exactly sure what's
broken it's hard to know how to fix it. I suspect that if I knew what
file wasn't found when launching the User Accounts applet the solution
might become obvious. Thanks.


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