You and me both. The only reason I passed that suggestion along
was because I ran across a similar question in one of the other
newsgroups months ago. The only way I could duplicate the
behavior was to remove some of the templates. Sure enough, that
was the problem. I never asked why. I had the feeling that it
was something the OP had done and forgotten about.

Nepatsfan

"Sooner Al [MVP]" <SoonerAl@somewhere.net.invalid> wrote in
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> Good point... Interestingly, at least to me, I have never
> had to do that on any of the XP Pro boxes I have installed.
> Hmmm...
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> "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@SBXXXVIII.com> wrote in message
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>> cdoc wrote:
>>> I don't have a terminal service entry in my local machine
>>> group policy editor.
>>> I navigated to Local Computer Policy | Computer
>>> Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows
>>> Components and all I have is windows media player and
>>> windows update. I want to force "no desktop wallpaper" I
>>> am logged in as administrator and RDP is enabled. What am I
>>> doing wrong?
>>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Right click on Administrative Templates.
>> On the menu that pops out, click on Add/Remove Templates.
>> You should see at least 5 entries in the "Current Policy
>> Templates" box; conf, inetres, system, wmplayer and wuau.
>> If any are missing, click on the Add button.
>> You should be able to add the missing templates.
>> Once you've done this, see if you can view all the Windows
>> Components. Good luck
>>
>> Nepatsfan

Perfect
That worked!
Thanks to both of you.

BTW
This is a new machine XP came loaded with OP.
No previous changes made to OP.

Excellent...

Thanks for the feedback...

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"cdoc" <cdoc@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Perfect
> That worked!
> Thanks to both of you.