Display Properties Appearance "effects" not working

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Jonathan Marz

Within the Display Properties window, under the
Appearance tab, there is an "effects" button. Within that
window, one of the check boxes says "show window contents
while dragging". When I check this box and apply the
feature, it only works for the current session. After I
shutdown the system and turn it back on, the check (and
the feature) is gone. I have Windows XP with SP1 on two
different systems and this only happens on one of them
that came installed on a new computer. I don't know of
any difference between the two systems that should cause
what appears to be a bug in Windows.

Has anyone seen this and have any ideas about solving it?
I seem to remember that prior to XP, this was a feature
only found in TweakUI, which I don't have for XP.

Thanks,

Jonathan
 
Jonathan said:
*Within the Display Properties window, under the
Appearance tab, there is an "effects" button. Within that
window, one of the check boxes says "show window contents
while dragging". When I check this box and apply the
feature, it only works for the current session. After I
shutdown the system and turn it back on, the check (and
the feature) is gone. I have Windows XP with SP1 on two
different systems and this only happens on one of them
that came installed on a new computer. I don't know of
any difference between the two systems that should cause
what appears to be a bug in Windows.

Has anyone seen this and have any ideas about solving it?
I seem to remember that prior to XP, this was a feature
only found in TweakUI, which I don't have for XP.

Thanks,

Jonathan
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jackkir
 
I have just acquired a new Dell with XP Professional and have also com
across this problem.

I previously had 98SE which has a similar feature in almost exactly th
same location (Control Panel>Display>Effects)


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jackkir
 
Searched a bit further and found

http://tinyurl.com/39ymr

I uninstalled the DELL Media Experience and no more problem.

This site also has a suggestion for a registry fix which may solve you
problem if you are not using a DELL PC.

Hope this helps..


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jackkir
 
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