My sister-in-laws' desktop will not display a background. The screen briefly shows her picture and then turns blue and only displays her desktop icons.The display background choices in the control panel are all inoperable and the little screen showing the display preview is white. I had previously changed the font setting from extra large to medium and these settings work.
View 4 RepliesThe "Desktop" tab has disappeared from the display portion of control panel.I am running WIN XP on a Compaq with 512 megs of ram and a 2.1 gig processor.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI accidently posted this in "Vista" so I'm reposting it here as the operating system I have is XP Professional. I'm having a problem with "Display" in the Control Panel. Yesterday I visited a website and opened a file. After I did that, my wallpaper changed and it appeared to be whatever the website was. I was able to somehow get it off (don't ask me what I did, I couldn't tell you). Now, when I click on "Display" in the Control Panel and go to "Desk Top", the only thing that I can change is the color and I can also click on "Customize Desktop", but I cannot change the background or click on browse...".
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View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen I upgraded to XP pro, I lost my display properties box....I cannot
access it through the control panel, or through the right click.
When I go to the control panel and then into Display, the only tabs that I have are screen saver and settings. I read a similiar problem and did everything that was mentioned there but NOTHING HELPED. My desktop is a black background. I did have a w32.desktophighjack oleext32.dll How do I restore the display tabs?
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View 12 Replies View Relatedmy problem is i have no control panel and cant get my desktop propertise also my clock in the bottom right hand corner of my toolbar cant be changed when i try to get desktop propertise i get this error message "this operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. please cantact your system administrator
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have four desktop icons that will not die. The exact method of creation escapes me, but I think it happened thus: As Administrator, Open Control Panel, start TweakUI. In TweakUI, go to Desktop, select Printers/Faxes and Start Menu, then Control Panel and click "Create as File." Fonts, Scheduled Tasks and Administrative Tools may have also been created as files. Anyway, the last four icons now appear on all user desktops and cannot be deleted. Their properties are the same as the Control Panel *.cpl files'. They do not appear in a command box "DIR" of any user. They did turn up in one Nethood folder and could not be deleted there. The container wasn't deletable either. The "Control Panel" file was deletable and both the check-box items went away when unchecked. Norton Windoctor 2005 reports "no problems found."
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI got a huge hullabaloo and 'Malwarealarm' installed randomly ( I got it from a popup when Firefox told me the site was spywarefilled) and the computer was fine. I restart once, and I loose my background, my ability to select a background from the 'Desktop' tab under rightclick-properties on the desktop itself became null (just a black screen), and proceed to try a myriad of things. Installed the new DirectX driver, new ATI Videocard driver, DirectX9.0, rolled back to ATI Xtasy driver, then tried installing DirectX9.0 again. Run virusscan and spywarescans, got rid of a bunch of stupid cookies. When I login or logout of Windows, my old background appears for a second, then disappears once more.
View 5 Replies View RelatedUntil recently just the usual Windows files in the Background file list in Display Properties/Desktop. Recently the list grows day by day it seems with a variety of files from My Pictures folder. Now takes quite a while to open the desktop option. Possibly linked to Picasa some way. How can I get rid of them without deleting the photo file ?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am unable to modify the Desktop background (in the Display options). Regardless of whatever choice I make I always get a white background.Avast Anti-viruss scan found no viruses and 'Malwarebytes' found no malware. I tried System Restore' but it cannot restore.I turned off and on the PC, unplugged it from the mains but to no avail.The problem started after removing some malware using Ad-Aware.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI want a single desktop click to enable/disable windows XP taskbar auto hide.I can do this if I write a script for the AutoHotkey macro tool to open the relevant dialog box and then check or uncheck the appropriate check box.I'd like to open the dialog box with a command line from AutoHotkey, or a similar operation. Right-clicking the taskbar even in the program is uncool.The catch is, I can execute any CP dialog EXCEPT this one as a command line, either passing a dialog parameter to Control.exe or else using a *.cpl file name with Control.exe or directly. But I can't find "Taskbar and Start Menu".
View 1 Replies View Relatedthe Background button is gone and i can't change it it is flat blue Help
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have lost my control panel function. When I click on "control panel" I get the message "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.My PC is not networked with any other equipment.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to open "Control Panel" it gives me an error dialog box that says Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. "Control Panel" has been taking longer and longer to load, but now it just stops. Running Windows XP Service Pack 2.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedMy control panel has disappeared and I can't fix it even though I've run AVG anti-virus and Spybot Search & Destroy. I'm also getting the following pop-up (with misspellings).Warning! Potential Spyware Operation!Your computer is making unauthorized copies of your system and Internet files. Run full scan now to prevent any unathorised access to your files! Click YES to download spyware remover.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have spent 14 hours trying to get this mess off my computer and get my life back.This warning screen popped up as you know after I got blasted by a porn page and had shut my computer completely off and rebooted.I did not download the spyware offered but something still got in.Lost the control panel and had restricted access to certain things.After many hours went into control panel through another user and was able to do a few things.I found a site that had a control panel fix and did get that restored on main user but everything is slow and not running right.I have also run Xoftspy, prevx, spybot,and spyhunter.I have run Norton none of which has solved the problem.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI un-installed a program (The Weather Channel) from the add & remove Programs and all other locations, including Icons have been deleted, excepting the Icon in the Control Panel. When I right click to open, an error #126 comes up stating (could not get local SMS.INI for current machine).Is it possible to delete thiss icon ? My OS is XP
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI run Windows xp sp2, I often use hibernation option, recently I am unable to do this. When I go into power options in the control panel the hibernation tab is missing, also in the turn off computer options in the start menu the standby tab is greyed out
View 1 Replies View RelatedRecently, my XP Pro SP3 Control panel started opening upon Windows startup. I've found no one on the Net who has this problem, and have no idea how to stop this behavior.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I attempt to make any selection in my Control Panel such as Add/Remove programs etc, a DOS screen pops up along with a dialogue box that reads like this: 16 Bit MS-DOS Subsystem
C:WindowsSystem32
undll32.exe
The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.
CS: 0000 IP: 0077 OP:fo 37 05 0c 02
Choose 'close' to terminate the application
Trying to reinstall WindowsXP from the original CD fails and just gives me an error message telling me it can't install because I have a newer version of Windows. Can someone help me with the best course of action to take? I need my computer for a job search and it is getting more unstable all the time. Also, I get two of these same DOS screens with the same error message at startup. I would really appreciate some help. Now, here is what someone at another forum told me to do that didn't work, unfortunately:
I have not been able to get into my control panel for quite some time now. Every time I try to get in, I get the "Windows has encountered an error and must close the program error" I really need to get into my control panel to remove some programs.thought? I am running windows xp
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