Microsoft KB Archive/244348

= Windows 2000 Microsoft Management Console Snap-ins May Not Initialize =

Article ID: 244348

Article Last Modified on 3/1/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

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This article was previously published under Q244348



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to load a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in using the - c:\>mmc.exe devmgr.msc command line, the following error message may be displayed:

Snap-In failed to initialize



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because snap-ins use hard-coded folder paths instead of the %WinDir% folder path in Windows 2000. If you rename the original installation folder and Boot.ini reference from another parallel installation, snap-ins in the original installation are not updated to use the new path.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, start into a parallel installation of Windows 2000 and change the name of the new folder to the original folder name.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000.

Keywords: kbenv kberrmsg kbprb KB244348

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