aceisangeight Thanks that fixed my problem. I know there's nothing wrong with my driver, I didn't bother reinstalling it. I am not a computer literal, I know that some spywares, disabled that just don't know how to bring them back. Thanks again aceisangeight and Thanks the rest that tried to help me <3 3.6Ghz Prescott 1MB cache @ 4.05Ghz Asus P5AD2-E Deluxe i925XE Kingston Hyper X 512MB -DDR2 533Mhz Dual Mode -CAS: 3-3-3-10 WD 36.7Gig Raptor 10,000 RPM WD 250Gig SATA HD Asus X300 128MB PCIe *yup gay* PowMax 450watt PSU

YES I've had the same problem exactly thank you very much guys u've helped me a lot I also got a wierd background and now after doing what u told I cannot edit/select any background pic, like its grayed and the REGs was diff for me: NoDispBackgroundPage and NoDispAppearancePage I've put'em both to 0 and I can see all tabs but I cannot edit the pics and cant click'em email me if u post a solution thnx

To be able to choose the desktop background again, simply remove the Wallpaper entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System That fixed it for me.

I was having the same problem and fixed it in the following manner: "NoDispBackgroundPage and NoDispAppearancePage I've put'em both to 0" Also, in the policies section, there was a key called something like "Wallpaper" with a value of "c:/bm.bmp" or something like that. I deleted teh Wallpaper key and then I could change the background again.

YEAH! i had some weird virus that put all kinds of short-cuts on my desktop, i got rid of that (just look in the Add/Remove software) but i couldn't get my tabs to work, and there was this weird prog. called "WB.exe" in my C:\ so i deleted that, and then deleted these: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Everything in there except (default) (duh..) Many thanks to all you here ^_^

I can see this being a problem to many people as it has had me pulling my hair out all day, i cant thank the ppl whove posted above enough, i do think it could of been explained better though... resolving the fake blue screen desktop and missing tabs in the display properties window: (all words do NOT include the 'quotes') 1) click 'start' then 'run' 2) type in 'regedit' 3) a scary looking thing loads, on the left there is a few folders named HKEY somethingorother, click HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then 'software', then 'microsoft', then 'windows' then 'currentversion', then click 'policies', and finally click 'system' 4) 5 icons should now have appeared on the right (see pic here: http://www.insomniafm.co.uk/upload/files/v2/./userfiles/DjSylva/regedit1.JPG) 5) double click the files NoDispBackgroundPage and NoDispAppearancePage and change their value from 1 to 0 6) delete the file wallpaper REG_SZ 7) close regedit hopefully ive been helpful once again thankyou very much everyone

I've been trying to fix a friend's very sick pc that (amongst many other problems) also had the fake blue screen desktop and now has missing display tabs. I tried Andy's fix but there is no system folder, and a search of the registry for NoDispBackgroundPage failed to find anything. Any ideas anyone?

this has smthg to do with a trojan or s---. some monkeyhead sent me the thing thru SouLSeeK .. :S mail me if u know how to get rid of it. (i already did spybot/adaware/regcleaner/the advice here/deleted exe-s everywhere/deleted the folder "ISRVS" under windows catalog/ .. i just think theres smthg else.

Hi there This is a trojan or varient of the bube.d (aka w32.beavis) It will drop loads of spyware on your system and as i know, currently there is only 1 program that can safely remove the trojan without messing up your explorer.exe file (which is what the trojan edits in the first place) http://castlecops.com/postt106277.html Go there and that will tell you everything you need to know about this trojan and how to remove and resolve it. i_am_your_meat_cleaver@hotmail.co.uk is my msn awishforwingsthatwork04 is my yahoo Poisoned Aura is my aim You can email me at courtney.sansbury@ntlworld.com I have a wide knowledge of spyware, viruses and related security and internet problems and i am more than happy to help any innocent bystander! =D

did as above & got my missing tabs back but still can't change background, after being hiot with virus & spyware I have an ad on my desktop that won't go away. any help?

I removed everything using a bunch of tools REGEDIT i went into the registry and removed all the funny looking items in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RUN. Then, using the info from this post, i went in and fixed my display. SYSINTERNALS PROCESS MONITOR I killed all of the strange programs running in memory. (i actually then went and renamed the file to killme-filename.exe for later deletion. LAVASOFT ADAWARE It removed a TON of spyware!!!! SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY This did too! I also enabled the tea-timer registry monitor AVG ANTIVIRUS Found around 10 viruses after i cleaned it up HIJACK THIS removed the browser hijack stuff that everything else didnt get. WINDOWS UPDATE my computer is now updated to the latest patch so this hopefully won't happen again.

This file download might help: GO TO 285 ON RIGHT PANEL - RESTORE ALL DISPLAY TABS Derek.W