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Using 10.1, both SP1 and no service pack, I'm getting blank windows when I open the GUI dialog for any geoprocessing tool from the ArcToolbox. The Environments window is also blank. Tool help windows open up and display fine. Tools are there, as I can use then via the Python window, but no GUIs. I think the content of these windows is written in html and xml, and I've located those files in my system; they're being written dynamically, I think, to suit whatever tool I tried to open last. Yet the window where I can normally specify tool inputs remains blank, both in ArcMap and ArcCatalog. Started doing this suddenly, after a bunch of custom script tool runs the other night, and a few I had to force-stop mid-way (which never caused this before). Simply restarting my system didn't work. Any insight appreciated, thanks!

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Resolved, and not ArcGIS's fault: my Esri App Data (where the xml files were) was on a network drive I was getting blocked from because of overstepping my storage size quota. Increased the quota and voila, geoprocessing tool GUI windows and Environment settings were showing up again. Did come across some forum entries with people with similar symptoms who solved their problems in different ways: gis.stackexchange.com/questions/11163/… forums.arcgis.com/threads/… – Paulo Raposo Jan 28 at 3:39

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