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by simonod

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Hi techrepublic,

Hope u can help

My display tabs have stopped showing. I can select the various sections(screen saver etc) If I click around on the left hand side of the properties window

I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling display drivers, running with the standard windows vid driver, going back to earlier vid drivers. Reinstalling DX9. I've even tried turning tabs on and off in gpedit! No luck

The only thing that does make the tabs reappear is if I change my desktop theme, then they appear only to dissappear when I close and reopen desktop properties.

Im running WINXP Pro SP1(all upgrades), ATI 9800 Pro with cat 4.3 drivers. Asus A7N88-D with latest NF2 drivers(3.13 i think)

The only windowa desktop "enhancement" software im running is StyleXP(tried uninstalling it, no luck)

I dont remeber doing anything or putting anything on that caused this problem :(

Can u save me from reinstalling just to get my tabs back!

regards one and all

simon :)

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by brent

The first thing I would look at is the following registry settings.

Key : HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \System
Entry : NoDispCPL
System : 95, 95+IE4.x, 98, ME, NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
1 : Disables the Control Panel Display icon as well as the option Properties of the Desktop's context menu.

Key : HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \System
Entry : NoDispBackgroundPage
System : 95, 95+IE4.x, 98, ME, NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
1 : Removes the Background tab in the Control Panel Display icon.

Key : HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \System
Entry : NoDispScrSavPage
System : 95, 95+IE4.x, 98, ME, NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
1 : Removes the Screensaver tab in the Control Panel Display icon.

Key : HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \System
Entry : NoDispAppearancePage
System : 95, 95+IE4.x, 98, ME, NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
1 : Removes the Appearance tab in the Control Panel Display icon.

Key : HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \System
Entry : NoDispSettingsPage
System : 95, 95+IE4.x, 98, ME, NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
1 : Removes the Configuration tab in the Control Panel Display icon

by simonod

thx for the reply.

Had a look at th ekey u suggested only to find the only key I have under Policies is explorer.

I made the system key and tried the DWORD values you suggested, but the tabs have not permanatly reappeared. Although it did what you said it would.

This path I have already been down using the group policy editor, but maybe the missing system key is significant?(never been a registry wiz!)

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