Re: How to fix/reinstall Display Properties Applet?
- From: Darkeforce <Darkeforce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:22:00 -0800
That fixed it perfectly! Thank-you. I had an nVidia video card before, and I
had run Driver Cleaner to clear out everything from nVidia before I installed
my Radeon card, but it missed that file somehow. Thanks
"bkjanik@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
I was having a very similar problem after installing a new MSI Nvidia.
Geforce 6200 card. It turned out that the driver that came with the
card had installed a new tab onto my display properties. The tab was
causing display properties to crash. I looked up how to uninstall an
MSI tab off of display properties. It turned out all I had to do was
delete the msicpl.dll file out of my windows\system32 folder. I would
encourage you to find out if their were any tabs added to your display
properties and figure out how to uninstall them. Also, I found a
Microsoft article that might have been useful. I was not able to try
it because I figured out how to fix it another way. Here is a link to
the article. It might be useful to you or someone else.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317128
Other thoughts:
By the way, I tried the repair install first and it didn't help.
Nothing really worked until I uninstalled the extra tab. Also, I was
able to tell what tabs I had by going to the registry key
hkey_current_user\control panel desktop and deleting the wallpaper
value. Then I was able to open the damaged display properties and
observe the tabs. That didn't really fix the problem, because it
would crash every time I tried to change the wallpaper or background,
but it did give me useful information. Also, before fixing it, I was
able to reset the wallpaper by right-clicking on an image in internet
explorer and setting it as background.
On Feb 8, 11:26 pm, Darkeforce <Darkefo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I cannot open the Display Properties from my desktop (right-click); the
window either flickers open for a split second, and then vanishes, or else
nothing happens. When I try to open it from the Control Panel -> Appearances
and Themes category, it will only open if I select "Choose a screensaver" or
"Change the screen resolution". And even then, once open, the applet will
crash if I click the "Themes" or "Desktop" tabs.
The problem started when I installed the drivers and software for a new ATI
Radeon video card. I've gone through extensive technical service with them,
and they concluded that it was a problem with Windows. I want to try to
repair or reinstall the cpl file (or whatever) for Display Properties to see
if that fixes it, but I can't find how to do that. When I try to do a Repair
Install from the Windows CD, it goes off into DOS mode, which is utterly
useless to me.
What ever happened to the "Repair Windows Installation" option from Win98,
anyway?
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