Missing Display icon in Control panel

[Guest Martin Ellis]

The display on the onbpard ATI Radeon grahics system stared shaking and

flashing badly, and would not allow resizing or changing of colour depth. It

would allow changes in safe mode, but this caused the PC to hang with a black

screen on boot up. I restarted in safe mode and removed the ATI drivers, then

used a new PCIe-16 Nvidia graphics card.

 

When running the CD, I got the message that Windows could not load the

installer for Display. I booted from the CD and chose to repair the existing

Windows installation (the screen after accepting the EULA), and all went well

until being told that setup could not copy three files. Sorry but I didn't

note the first two but the last one was desk.cpl. Needless to say, the

problem remained when setup had completed.

 

If I right-click the desktop, and choose properties, nothing happens, but I

can start the properties box by running desk.cpl

 

The settings window in desktop properties shows 1024x768 resolution, but

just says Default moniotor on...

 

Any ideas please?

[Guest Martin Ellis]

RE: Missing Display icon in Control panel

 

Problem solved...

 

I moved desk.cpl to a temporary location and ran Windows setup again. This

time it worked, and the software has installed correctly

 

 

 

"Martin Ellis" wrote:

> The display on the onbpard ATI Radeon grahics system stared shaking and

> flashing badly, and would not allow resizing or changing of colour depth. It

> would allow changes in safe mode, but this caused the PC to hang with a black

> screen on boot up. I restarted in safe mode and removed the ATI drivers, then

> used a new PCIe-16 Nvidia graphics card.

>

> When running the CD, I got the message that Windows could not load the

> installer for Display. I booted from the CD and chose to repair the existing

> Windows installation (the screen after accepting the EULA), and all went well

> until being told that setup could not copy three files. Sorry but I didn't

> note the first two but the last one was desk.cpl. Needless to say, the

> problem remained when setup had completed.

>

> If I right-click the desktop, and choose properties, nothing happens, but I

> can start the properties box by running desk.cpl

>

> The settings window in desktop properties shows 1024x768 resolution, but

> just says Default moniotor on...

>

> Any ideas please?