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Old 06-17-2005, 11:12 AM   #1
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Missing Display Properties

Hello,
I have installed a new video card Matrox Millennium P750.
Now if i try to do something real simple, like change the desktop background picture, i right-click on the desktop to bring up the contextual menu but...
After clicking on "properties" i only get 2 tabs, where there are usually 4 or 5. So i can only change the screen saver and dual-monitor settings. The tab where you can usually change the desktop pic is gone and so is everything else... is there a way to restore it? I had a problem with the active desktop and my image had dissapeared, must have clicked on something by mistake? thanks.
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BTW i am on Win XP pro...
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Old 06-17-2005, 11:14 AM   #3
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Have a look here at resonses 6, 7 and 8...
http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/w...um/132440.html

Looks like it might be the same issue.
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Old 06-17-2005, 02:31 PM   #4
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Problem solved!
In case anyone is looking for the fix, here goes:

Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

If there is a DWoRD Value such "NoDispScrSavPage" with a data value of 1 this will disable the screen saver tab. Change the value to 0 or delete it to
see the tab again.
i see that you have the screensaver tab but see if there is anything else that looks like it is for the other tabs
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