Group Policy Snap-in failed to initialze

[shinglung 0]

Hi

 

I've been running my latest install of XP pro for quite sometime now with little trouble (Apart from the Infinite Loop thing and some other small things).

 

But today I thought I would have a play with the Group Policy settings and so I tried to open gpedit.msc, but when I did I got this error;

 

Snap-in failed to initialize

Name: Group Policy

CLSID:{8FC0B734-A0E1-11D1-A7D3-0000F87571E3}

 

And then when I click on ok it opens the console but shows nothing, and says;

 

Snap-in Creation Failed.

The snap-in is not created, it may not be installed properly.

Name: Group Policy

CLSID:{8FC0B734-A0E1-11D1-A7D3-0000F87571E3}

 

Any ideas what’s happened?

 

Any ideas on how to fix it (preferable with out a complete reinstall)

 

 

Thanks

 

shingling