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Display Properties - XP

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onthelimit1
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Posted January 27, 2012 at 3:36PM

Looking at an elderly XP PC. Whe I right-click on the desktop and select 'properties', all that comes up is Display Properties with the option to change the theme. The usual tabs Apperarace, Settings Desktop etc are not there. Am I being dull (again?).

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Ian in Northampton

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 3:43PM

I'd suspect some kind of display driver issue...

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onthelimit1

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 3:55PM

I did try an update and also ran sfc /scannow.

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Secret-Squirrel

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 4:03PM

I found this promising page via a Google search.

You may want to create a System Restore point before you run the VBS script though.

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onthelimit1

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 4:46PM

Hmmm. Thought I'd double check the device manager. Found an exclam by the Nvidia GeForce 2 MX/MX400. Went to the Nvidia site, ran their scanner. It confirmed the card. I downloaded and installed the driver - seemingly successfully. After reboot, all still the same (and still the exclam mark and 'this device is not configured correctly' under properties?

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onthelimit1

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 5:14PM

Put a different card in - same! Could that Nvidia be on the mobo, and U/S and that's why it's showing problems. Don't seem to be any other Display Adaptors on the device Manager list, though. Think I'll go and have a pint and try later!

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buteman

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 5:26PM

Maybe try without the graphics card if your motherboard has on board graphics already on it.

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Secret-Squirrel

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 5:26PM

onthelimit1, are you still trying to sort out the missing tabs in Display properties or have you now moved on to a different problem? If it's the former then did you see and try my earlier suggestion?

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onthelimit1

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 5:30PM

SS - it's all part of the same problem. I was going to try your suggestion, then thought I'd follow Ian's advice firdt. That's when the yellow axclams came into the equation. There does seem to be something adrift with the graphics driver which may also be giving the original symptoms.

I'll check back in when my brain stops hurting!

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onthelimit1

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 5:56PM

SS -thought Id run your suggestion before going out. Sadly, it's still the same!

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Secret-Squirrel

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 6:02PM

"Sadly, it's still the same!..."

Sorry to hear that. There are a lot of other tweaks available here. It certainly looks like a common problem so at least one of those links should restore those missing tabs. I'm personally not convinced it's a graphics-driver problem....sounds more like an an XP issue.....but I could be wrong.

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