display settings

[buck]

recently, my display settings options changed as follows:

"desktop" has been replaced by "themes." i have not been
able to get the desktop tab back. i suspect this may be
the result of some "maintenance" work by our IS folks, but
they deny making any deliberate modifications.

how can i get my desktop settings tab back?

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Syst=
em

Look in the right pane for a value called NoDispBackgroundPage If it =
exists, its value should be 0 (zero). If not, double click the value =
and change it. If it doesn't exist, right click in a blank area of the =
right pane, select New, DWord value and name it NoDispBackgroundPage. =
Leave it at 0.

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> recently, my display settings options changed as follows:
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> "desktop" has been replaced by "themes." i have not been=20
> able to get the desktop tab back. i suspect this may be=20
> the result of some "maintenance" work by our IS folks, but=20
> they deny making any deliberate modifications.
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> how can i get my desktop settings tab back?