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I have an ATI All in Wonder 9700 Pro installed on my Windows XP SP1. It has been installed for about a year now and running alright. I went to change my settings recently and the DISPLAY PROPERIES applet no longer has any tabs and the few items that show no longer do anything.

I have tried reinstalling the complet suite for the card; the original and all new drivers programs etc. I also reloaded WinXP from CD as an upgrade, (I wanted to maintain my desktop and all loaded software), to no avail.

Everything else works flawlessly. I run anti-virus that is updated nightly automaticly and set to do complete system scan of all files nightly, so virus is not the problem. I weekly run software that checks for Ad type things that might have snuck in, never found one as I am VERY conservative. I run a software firewall and am behind a Symantec VPN/Firewall 200r.

I am generally able to fix about any problem that crops up on my network but this one has me stumped. Any ideas out there?

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by sgt_shultz

maybe because they don't support winxp?
here is a snippet from the ati website...

Current (Windows 9x) ATI Video Player Tuner/Capture software for the original ALL-IN-WONDER (RAGE II+) does not install or function properly in a Windows XP environment.
At this time, ATI has no plans to offer Windows XP Tuner/Capture support for the original ALL-IN-WONDER (RAGE II+).

by Member 35376176

The ATI All in Wonder 9700 Pro uses the Radeon Chip. The driver I currently have installed is their CATALYST Windows XP 4.3 - Driver (wxp-w2k-catalyst-7-991-040224m-013831c); the latest they have released. I forgot to state that in my origianl posting. Sorry.

by sfc_gijoe

It seems like someone has been changing your registry settings

WARNING: Backup registry before attempting......

Check the following registry keys and make sure they are set to the following:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispAppearancePage"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispAppearancePage"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispBackgroundPage"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispBackgroundPage"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispSettingsPage"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispSettingsPage"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispScrSavPage"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispScrSavPage"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoThemesTab"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoThemesTab"=dword:00000000

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