My Display Properties dialogue box has lost a couple of folders due to some adware. The remaining folders are: Screen Saver, Effects and Settings. How do I restore the original property box? stesu

Hi, well, you could try SFC /SCANNOW (System file checker) - Start, Run - with your Windows CD. But I haven't seen this solve smaller issues yet. Do you have a recent disk image? If not, you should use this periodically as a backup against untoward system changes. Eg Acronis TrueImage. You could reinstall Windows and only lose the Windows updates (you did keep them, didn't you- for reinstalling?!). Good luck!

Oh, and if you were as lucky as I was with a minor issue like this, you could try uninstalling Windows updates and reinstalling them. Who knows, you might get lucky! After installing a couple of updates, my ('insoluble') problem was solved. No guarantees of course...

Hi stesu Run REGEDIT Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System On the right hand page, look for NoDispBackgroundPage and NoDispAppearancePage If you find them, right click and change the value to 0 If you don't have them, create them as a new DWORD Value, and put the value as 0 Good luck! Krystyna [Sydney, Australia]