Re: Lost Part of Control Panel - Pls Help


Molly

Have you looked at Start, Control Panel, Display, Settings?

Do you have a Graphics card. I can also adjust the setting through a
Nvidia Control Panel Colour quality setting.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Molly wrote:
Right on about TweakUI and the mouse. I had used it a couple of days
ago and must have unchecked the mouse. I uninstalled it because I had
changed some settings for window focus that were making me 'nuts' and
could there did not seem to be any way to undo the damage. Then I had
to rollback the registry three days and the issue was finally
resolved. No wonder they call them power toys. Anyhow, I
reinstalled tweakui and the main.cpl box was unchecked. Problem
resolved. I also checked everything in the control panel area to see
if I could resolve the issue described below. Nada.

The second problem, which I was not clear enough about. All of my
display setting ability is gone. I cannot change from 16 to 32 to 64
bit. No way to set wallpaper, pixels, color, etc. Do you have any
ideas? I am suspicious of tweakui due to the fact it did so in other
areas.

And you are right, I'm running without a disc. I need to copy one
then, I guess, change the serial number so I can use it. I'm hampered
by the fact a computer tech installed his copy of XP a few years back.
He said it was legal for him to do so. The problem is he's no longer
available and I've no disc.

I will run a couple of spyware apps. A couple of days ago McAffee
said a spyware app had d/l (nice of it to tell me AFTER it came down
instead of asking me) so I need to get rid of it. Not so great but it
came 'free' with Comcast. Comodo firewall is alot better and I need
to try to get another key to activate my other antiviral. Anyhow...

Please let me know if you know what happened to my display and in the
meantime

And thank-you so much for the return of my mouse.

Molly


On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 13:50:46 +0100, "Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Molly

You could try TweakUi. Download TweakUI, one of the MS powertoys,
from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

In TweakUi select My Computer, Control Panel. You can see a complete
list of Control Panel extensions. The one for mouse, keyboard etc is
main.cpl. Check the box before to display or uncheck to hide and
click on Aplpy and OK.

You do not say what your other problem is. It quite common for
malware to attack the means of restoring the computer and if
main.cpl is missing from the list in TweakUi it would not be a
surprise. The main copy of main.cpl is to be found in
c:\windows\system32 and there is a backup copy in
c:\windows\system32\dllcache. Using Windows Explorer check to see if
one or both are present. You most likely need to enable Show hidden
files.

Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View, Advanced Settings
and verify that the box before "Show hidden files and folders" is
checked and "Hide protected operating system files " is unchecked.
You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You should also
make certain that the box before "Hide extensions for known file
types" is not checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View,
Details is selected and then select View, Choose Details and check
before Name, Type, Total Size, and Free Space.

The normal way to restore missing or damaged files in the system32
folder is to use the System File Checker tool. Try Start, Run, type
"sfc /scannow" without quotes and hit Enter.

Description of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 System
File Checker (Sfc.exe)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310747

You will need your Windows XP CD. You may encounter problems if your
CD does not include SP3 as seems likely.

Read this link as it contains a way forward if you have no CD
http://ask-leo.com/i_dont_have_an_installation_cd_for_windows_xp_what_if_i_need_one.html

If you need to point to a folder, instead of I386 I would try
dllcache.


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