I went to help a friend with his computer. I tried to change the desktop
picture but when I go to Control Panel, Display there is no tap for Desktop.
How could it be missing? The other tabs are there. Any help would be
appreciated. Thank you

Using google.com, I found this post from MVP Doug Knox:

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

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


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



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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2007


"onemulligan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:27D71185-5858-4C0C-AA28-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I went to help a friend with his computer. I tried to change the desktop
> picture but when I go to Control Panel, Display there is no tap for
> Desktop.
> How could it be missing? The other tabs are there. Any help would be
> appreciated. Thank you

Thanks so much for the reply and fix. I can't imagine how that would happen
but I will fix it.

"Ron Badour" wrote:

> Using google.com, I found this post from MVP Doug Knox:
>
> Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
>
>
> Look in the right pane for a value called NoDispBackgroundPage. If it
> exists it should be set to 0 (zero). If not, double click the value and
> change it to 0. If it doesn't exist, right click in the right pane, select
> New, DWord Value and name it NoDispBackGroundPage. Leave it set at 0.
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Ron Badour
> MS MVP 1997 - 2007
>
>
> "onemulligan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:27D71185-5858-4C0C-AA28-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I went to help a friend with his computer. I tried to change the desktop
> > picture but when I go to Control Panel, Display there is no tap for
> > Desktop.
> > How could it be missing? The other tabs are there. Any help would be
> > appreciated. Thank you
>
>
>