Lost ability to configure display

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Mike Flood

I now cannot make display settings for Windows XP Home on my Toshiba Laptop.
Cannot set background colors, Icon sizes, fonts and font sizes.
I don't know if something is corrupt or was deleted by me accidentally or by
some Trojan on purpose.
Otherwise computer runs fine.
Where can I look for help for this? Reload "something"

Not crucial or critical but I'd like to have the ability return.

an email to mikeflood@a5(remove).com would be appreciated.
 
Mike said:
I now cannot make display settings for Windows XP Home on my Toshiba
Laptop. Cannot set background colors, Icon sizes, fonts and font
sizes. I don't know if something is corrupt or was deleted by me
accidentally or by some Trojan on purpose.
Otherwise computer runs fine.
Where can I look for help for this? Reload "something"

Not crucial or critical but I'd like to have the ability return.

an email to mikeflood@a5(remove).com would be appreciated.
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Sorry, no free email support. Asked here, answered here for everyone's
benefit.

Make sure your computer is clean:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

If the computer is malware/virus free, try these fixes from MVP Kelly
Theriot:

Look under Wallpaper-Desktop-Disable Changing here:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_w.htm

If Display tabs are missing, run Kelly's registry edit on line 285,
right-hand side "Restore all display tabs".

Malke
 
I found it. I changed the binary value from (1) to (0) which allowed the
screen changes to be displayed.
Thanks for pointing me to the right place. Here's what I exported from the
registry after the change.

Key Name:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 10/13/2005 - 10:21 PM
Value 0
Name: NoDispAppearancePage
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x0
 
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