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Display Properties Desktop Gone Bad
Name: Incarnadine Date: June 18, 2005 at 01:12:53 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 3.00 / 1024
Comment:
Ok this sucks. I got some wierd trojan or virues I guess. My background got changed automatically and my Desktop options under Display Properties got locked up and all grayed out so I can't change or click anything. Here is a screen shot.
Name: Incarnadine Date: June 18, 2005 at 03:03:35 Pacific
Reply:
My friends tell me that my disabled and grayed out Display Properties has to do with something in my Registry. But they don't know where else to go from there. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Response Number 2
Name: Rich Mentzel Date: June 18, 2005 at 05:57:06 Pacific
Reply:
What sucks? The fact you wasted money on a computer, and spent no time and energy protecting it? What amazes me is how people "float" through space, reading and hearing nothing, updating nothing, and then "Life Sucks" and look who did what TO THEM? So now plan to Work: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html
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Make the investment in time and software, and this will never happen again. Oh and don't click on anything you don't know what it is...OK?
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