Solve : Can't access Display In Control Pannel?

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Answer» I have a Windows XP Home Edition 2002 Service Pack 3. When I go to control panel and click on display, nothing happeneds. if I keep trying, I will see the display window pop up for a split second then dissapear. Nothing else pops up. Recently I've been able to access the display panel, but if I try to make any changes ( I want to change my theme back to XP theme) the computer takes a few seconds loading, the the display box just dissapears. No Changes are possible. In adition, whenever I change my screen saver It deletes my previous one! Please help? Thanks, leftychickI think your hard drive may be cluttered and may have some viruses as well... Uninstall any/all PROGRAMS that you don't use, then Run a defrag.... Start>All Programs> accessories>system tools>defragmentor It may take a while.. But when the defrag is done, download Malwarebytes, update it and run a full scan with it.....Download Spybot Search and Destroy as well (don't install the tea timer that comes with it), make sure you update it and run a scan... Also, update your current anit-virus program and run a scan with it...Thanks for your Reply! I guess I thought the same thing, because I've recently Uninstalled programs that I don't use- pritty much every single one I don't use. I also have recently defragged my computer, and ran a Disk clean up. I downloaded Malware bites a few months ago to get a nasty virus off, and it worked. So far, Malware bites, and my CA-anitvirus/spyware/etc- hasn't caught any viruses! My desktop just changed though, and I had to restart my computer becuase It never finished booting up! I don't know if it has any connection with my problem, but mentioned this incase! Thanks for your efforts! Any other Ideas? leftychickQuote from: leftychick on August 12, 2009, 06:05:50 PM I had to restart my computer becuase It never finished booting up! So are you still having a problem with your display functions? As for the computer taking a long time to boot....Click START>type RUN>click on RUN when you see it in the menu>type MSCONFIG into the RUN box and click OK When the MSCONFIG utility appears, click on the "start up" tab, click "disable all", click "apply", click OK, and then restart the comptuer.....that should help your computer to boot up faster... If there are programs you want running at start up, you don't have to disable all of them, you can be selective...But all things being equal, if you've got a lot of programs checked to run at start up, your computer will boot slow..There are some baddies out there that disable or screw with Control Panel functions... Even though you got your machine cleaned out PRIOR to this i suggest visiting our Virus and Spyware section and following the guide at the top of the page for posting your logs... Best of Luck.What happens when you right-click on the desktop and CHOOSE "PROPERTIES"?

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I have a Windows XP Home Edition 2002 Service Pack 3.

When I go to control panel and click on display, nothing happeneds. if I keep trying, I will see the display window pop up for a split second then dissapear. Nothing else pops up.
Recently I've been able to access the display panel, but if I try to make any changes ( I want to change my theme back to XP theme) the computer takes a few seconds loading, the the display box just dissapears. No Changes are possible. In adition, whenever I change my screen saver It deletes my previous one!
Please help?
Thanks,
leftychickI think your hard drive may be cluttered and may have some viruses as well...

Uninstall any/all PROGRAMS that you don't use, then
Run a defrag.... Start>All Programs> accessories>system tools>defragmentor

It may take a while.. But when the defrag is done, download Malwarebytes, update it and run a full scan with it.....Download Spybot Search and Destroy as well (don't install the tea timer that comes with it), make sure you update it and run a scan... Also, update your current anit-virus program and run a scan with it...Thanks for your Reply! I guess I thought the same thing, because I've recently Uninstalled programs that I don't use- pritty much every single one I don't use. I also have recently defragged my computer, and ran a Disk clean up. I downloaded Malware bites a few months ago to get a nasty virus off, and it worked. So far, Malware bites, and my CA-anitvirus/spyware/etc- hasn't caught any viruses!
My desktop just changed though, and I had to restart my computer becuase It never finished booting up! I don't know if it has any connection with my problem, but mentioned this incase!
Thanks for your efforts! Any other Ideas?
leftychickQuote from: leftychick on August 12, 2009, 06:05:50 PM

I had to restart my computer becuase It never finished booting up!

So are you still having a problem with your display functions?

As for the computer taking a long time to boot....Click START>type RUN>click on RUN when you see it in the menu>type MSCONFIG into the RUN box and click OK
When the MSCONFIG utility appears, click on the "start up" tab, click "disable all", click "apply", click OK, and then restart the comptuer.....that should help your computer to boot up faster... If there are programs you want running at start up, you don't have to disable all of them, you can be selective...But all things being equal, if you've got a lot of programs checked to run at start up, your computer will boot slow..There are some baddies out there that disable or screw with Control Panel functions...
Even though you got your machine cleaned out PRIOR to this i suggest visiting our Virus and Spyware section and following the guide at the top of the page for posting your logs...
Best of Luck.What happens when you right-click on the desktop and CHOOSE "PROPERTIES"?

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