Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Missing desktop and screensaver tabs from display settings

after a virus attack, the display settings on this dell notebook were missing the desktop and screensaver tabs.

they can be restored with a small registry fix, thus :

open regedit and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

delete the following keys if they are present:
NoDispBackgroundPage
NoDispScrSavPage

the usual registry editing caveats apply, in other words, if you're not sure then don't do it

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