Right Click and Display Disabled

V-PV-P State College, PA Member
edited July 2006 in Science & Tech
Okay, I logged on this morning and I tried to change my resolution 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.

Comments

  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    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-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited July 2006
    EMT wrote:
    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-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited July 2006
    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.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    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-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited July 2006
    Leonardo wrote:
    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.
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