Display Properties Appearance "effects" not working

[Jonathan Marz]

Within the Display Properties window, under the
Appearance tab, there is an "effects" button. Within that
window, one of the check boxes says "show window contents
while dragging". When I check this box and apply the
feature, it only works for the current session. After I
shutdown the system and turn it back on, the check (and
the feature) is gone. I have Windows XP with SP1 on two
different systems and this only happens on one of them
that came installed on a new computer. I don't know of
any difference between the two systems that should cause
what appears to be a bug in Windows.

Has anyone seen this and have any ideas about solving it?
I seem to remember that prior to XP, this was a feature
only found in TweakUI, which I don't have for XP.

Thanks,

Jonathan

 

[Guest]

U can try download Tweak UI from microsoft see if it
helps.

 

[jackkirk]

*Within the Display Properties window, under the
Appearance tab, there is an "effects" button. Within that
window, one of the check boxes says "show window contents
while dragging". When I check this box and apply the
feature, it only works for the current session. After I
shutdown the system and turn it back on, the check (and
the feature) is gone. I have Windows XP with SP1 on two
different systems and this only happens on one of them
that came installed on a new computer. I don't know of
any difference between the two systems that should cause
what appears to be a bug in Windows.

Has anyone seen this and have any ideas about solving it?
I seem to remember that prior to XP, this was a feature
only found in TweakUI, which I don't have for XP.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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jackkir

 

[jackkirk]

I have just acquired a new Dell with XP Professional and have also com
across this problem.

I previously had 98SE which has a similar feature in almost exactly th
same location (Control Panel>Display>Effects)


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jackkir

 

[jackkirk]

Searched a bit further and found

http://tinyurl.com/39ymr

I uninstalled the DELL Media Experience and no more problem.

This site also has a suggestion for a registry fix which may solve you
problem if you are not using a DELL PC.

Hope this helps..


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jackkir