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V|P
23 Jul 2006, 6:06pm
Okay, I logged on this morning and I tried to change my resolution (http://short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48377&highlight=res+problem) but I couldn't right click anywhere on the desktop or in folders for that matter. Then I went to control panel and tried to open "Display" and it says "System Administrator has disabled Display..." I googled it, but I didn't find any answers that actually worked. I tried regedit, restart, etc etc.
EMT
23 Jul 2006, 6:26pm
This your own computer you have admin privileges on? If it's 2000/XP there should be a policy you can change about this somewhere under administrative tools or in poledit.
V|P
23 Jul 2006, 6:27pm
This your own computer you have admin privileges on? If it's 2000/XP there should be a policy you can change about this somewhere under administrative tools or in poledit.
Yes I'm the only admin on it. It XP Home.
V|P
23 Jul 2006, 7:15pm
I fixed it. I thought I'd post the solution for others, since it seems to be a common problem.

Click on START, RUN and type REGEDIT, press OK. This opens the Registry Editor.

Look for HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Expand it.

Navigate to Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>System.

Then, under System, look for the file called NoDispCPL.

Double click on NoDispCLP. In the box called Value Data, it will have the number "1" - change this to zero "0".

Click OK

Close the Registry Editor.
Leonardo
24 Jul 2006, 6:15am
Were you able to find out how that setting had changed from it's original setting? In other words, what happened that one day you just weren't able to right click as you had been doing previously?
V|P
24 Jul 2006, 4:04pm
Were you able to find out how that setting had changed from it's original setting? In other words, what happened that one day you just weren't able to right click as you had been doing previously?
No, but this happened immediatly after I installed Linux, so that MAY have something to do with it. I did a spyware check with SpyBot and Ad-Aware, and I got 2 in spybot and 1 in AD-Aware, an the 2 in spybot were windows security overrides, so that was done by me.