Display properties windows xp missing

Have you tried it with a newly created USER? Tried that too Do you know what this refers to? It just may be that after all the "cleaning" something has got chucked out with the bath water? Try running ChkDsk to check your drive for errors. Select both boxes. You will lose all your windows updates but your files will be untouched.

Sorry for the delay in replying but haven't been feeling well. It had been sitting in his closet for quite some time. When it started giving him problems, he bought a new one.

So I'm now the owner of a sick PC. I then remembered that HP sold their PC's with a hidden partition that contained the system recovery rather than supply a recovery disk. You could make one copy of this but it ticked off a lot of people because that hidden partition used up about GB's of HD space. All SP's were lost as linney mentioned. I cleaned out the junk apps.

When I rebooted the PC, a 2nd glitch appeared. It takes minutes to boot up Safe Mode too. Shutting down all unnecessary apps from starting boot was no help. The few apps in Programs Start menu take an unusual amount of time to bring up also. The last glitch to appear was it won't allow me to install the SP's or any patches from neither the CD's I have nor Windows Update site. Thanks for the help, Bob. Could be a bad or failing drive It may or may not work installing with that key The drive manufacturer will have free bootable diagnostic software that can thoroughly check out the condition of the hard drive.

Running some RAM memory checkers might be worthwhile too. Ben, linney I would love to try all your suggestions but things have gotten worse. That was after last good boot. PC will no longer boot. I'm going to try rerunning sys recovery again. If it works, I'll create a sys recovery set of CD's before doing anything else.

I'll let you know how things go with running system recovery. Thanks again for you help, Bob. Running System Recovery didn't work. It would finish the installing but Windows still wouldn't start. Occasionally, that screen would fade away only to reappear. Magic Jelly Bean displayed the same key as Belarc. Unless I hear other ideas, I'll go ahead with my plan.

I'm not sure that graphic has all the right settings or which ones are pertinent. LostUser ,. LostUser Its my understanding that with XP, you just point to the drive and make sure that I is at the top. I remember doing this with win98 and we pointed to the exact folder. As a follow up read this article, scroll to the end for the important bit Dont know if I got it right Pete, It ran but I had to baby it along, it stopped about 30 or more times asking for the windows home service pack 2 CD.

I am a little confused as to the registry setting, did you want me to change just the bottom two you have outlined in red or the whole thing. I'm lost on this one. Ken Somewhere on the Board is a very long thread on this subject which was finally resolved using the settings specified in my screenshot adjacent to the lower two red lines. The line above is unchanged from standard. I suspect your problem is that, as you posted, your XP CD is vanilla and does not include any service packs.

Hi, Ken. Here is a link to an alternative method of creating a slipstreamed bootable Windows XP SP2 CD in case you want to give that method a shot. Thanks Pete I will work on this tomorrow. Still not there. What is the score on the display properties tab? I was hoping system file checker would restore the files that I may be missing.

The windows CD I have is over 2 years old and has no service packs, will this work with this or do I need it to have SP1. I also have the SP2 disk I got from Microsoft. If you decide to give it a try, please let us know how it goes. Nero 5. It seems I have a serious malware infection. Thanks for trying to help me. Those files didn't help me. The situation is the same Posted 29 June - AM.

I managed removing the malware from my computer but i still have those tabs missing. Do u think u could help me restore them back? I had the same problem before, I went through system restore and it all worked fine. If you know when you had this problem you could possibly restore your machine's state to the day before.

System restore didn't work for me Zip it up. I hope this is gonna be helpful There is no attachment because i'm not able to add one. Sorry, i didn't notice this the first time. Otherwise i wouldn't have posted my previous reply. Anyway, i decided to post the content of pol. Posted 01 July - AM.