Spyware messed up Display control panel

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Chris

Hi,

I recently had a run-in with a spyware virus that took over the desktop,
etc. and left this "oneclicksearches" search page. I finally have it all
cleaned up but there is one lingering effect regarding the Display control
panel that I can't figure out.

The virus blocks access to anything that can modify the desktop, in
particulr removing the Themes, Desktop and Appearance tabs from the display
control panel. Any ideas how I can get them back? I changed quite a few
registry entries that contained suspicious stuff, so I'm presuming that one
of those specifies which tabs to show.

Chris
 
Chris,

Start Regedit.exe and navigate these two locations:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]

In the right-pane, delete the following values if found:

- NoDispAppearancePage
- NoThemesTab
- NoDispBackgroundPage
- NoDispScrSavPage
- NoDispSettingsPage

If none of the above Policies are set (in both of the locations above), but
the display properties tabs are still missing except for the Themes tab, try
these commands from Start, Run dialog:

regsvr32 themeui
regsvr32 /i shell32

Restart Windows.
 
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