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re: Display Properties window reverted to Win98
Friday, June 27, 2008 at 8:29 am
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Posted by DEX (11807 messages posted)


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On Friday, June 27, 2008 at 7:13 am, Jeremy wrote:
>A while back I noticed my Display Properties window was the old "win98" style. I
>have done everything I can think of from replacing the desk.cpl to copying DLL's
>from an identical system that is working correctly and still can not get the Win2000
>display properties window to appear correctly.
>
>The tabs I have in my display window are:
>Background (2 column, PATTERN on left, Wallpaper on right) - This is a win98 style
>tab.
>Screen Saver
>Appearance
>Effects
>Settings
>
>Tabs I should have:
>Background (single column with "select a background picture") - Win2000 style
>Screen Saver
>Appearance
>Web
>Effects Settings.
>
>In essence, my background tab is wrong, and I have no "Web" tab.
>
>Any ideas on what dll or cpl or anything that might control the display properties
>window so I can get it back to the win2000 style?




Written in response to:
Display Properties window reverted to Win98 (Jeremy: Friday, June 27, 2008 at 7:13 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Display Properties window reverted to Win98 (Jeremy: Friday, June 27, 2008 at 8:52 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Display Properties window reverted to Win98 (Jeremy: Fri, Jun 27, 2008, 7:13 am)
-re: Display Properties window reverted to Win98 (DEX: Fri, Jun 27, 2008, 8:29 am)
-re: Display Properties window reverted to Win98 (Jeremy: Fri, Jun 27, 2008, 8:52 am)
-re: Display Properties window reverted to Win98 (Maureen Clow: Fri, Jun 27, 2008, 10:48 pm)
*re: Display Properties window reverted to Win98 (Jeremy: Sat, Jun 28, 2008, 9:50 am)
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