CindyLouWhooo <faux@none_gone.com> wrote in
news:mn.b17d7d781d846784.70004@nonegone.com:

>> CindyLouWhooo <faux@notreal_gone.com> wrote in
>> news:mn.94e27d78c0eb66e7.70218@notrealgone.com:
>>
>>> thanks for being here. I am beaten down and near brainless.
>>>
>>> About four months ago, my desktop tab disappeared.
>>> I have been going from forum to forum trying to find the answer in
>>> registry settings.
>>>
>>> Weekly in safe mode I run:
>>> my antivirus Avira
>>> have added AVG
>>>
>>> Spybot
>>> Bughunter
>>> Smitfraud fix
>>> Arovax
>>> Lavasoft Adaware
>>>
>>> and two online trojan-antivir-keylogger,etc.scans.
>>>
>>> Arovax tells me spywad each week and points to user and machine:
>>> Software-Microsoft-Windows-Curr.Version-Policies........I have done
>>> a complete restore of said machine, without change. I have been to
>>> KellysKorner, and a multitude of honorable forums trying to find the
>>> answer.
>>>
>>> My house burned down and my church gave me this machine. I feel the
>>> hurdles I have jumped in fine tuning have been great, except for
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Can you point me in the direction of what settings I need to change
>>> in user and machine policies to make my desktop tab come back? This
>>> has been my life's quest the past few months, and boy am I really
>>> tired.....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi There. I'm late in this. You said your desktop tab was missing
>> right? Lets see what could be doing that... It's likely a policy key
>>
>> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs...isplaytabs.reg
>>
>> If you have trouble with the url, please copy/paste the lines between
>> **** below
>>
>> *****
>> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\
>> Exp lorer] "NoActiveDesktopChanges"=hex:00,00,00,00
>> "NoActiveDesktop"=dword:00000000
>> "NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000
>> "ClassicShell"=dword:00000000
>> "NoThemesTab"=dword:00000000
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\
>> Sys tem] "NoDispAppearancePage"=dword:00000000
>> "NoColorChoice"=dword:00000000
>> "NoSizeChoice"=dword:00000000
>> "NoDispBackgroundPage"=dword:00000000
>> "NoDispScrSavPage"=dword:00000000
>> "NoDispCPL"=dword:00000000
>> "NoVisualStyleChoice"=dword:00000000
>> "NoDispSettingsPage"=dword:00000000
>> "NoDispScrSavPage"=dword:00000000
>> "NoVisualStyleChoice"=dword:00000000
>> "NoSizeChoice"=dword:00000000
>> "SetVisualStyle"=-
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\
>> Act iveDesktop] "NoChangingWallPaper"=dword:00000000
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\ThemeMana
>> ger
>> ] "ThemeActive"="1"
>> "DllName"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65, 00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00
>> ,6f ,00,\
>> 74,00,25,00,5c,00,72,00,65,00,73,00,6f,00,75,00,72 ,00,63,00,65,00,73
>> ,00 ,5c,\
>> 00,54,00,68,00,65,00,6d,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,6c,00 ,75,00,6e,00,61,00
>> ,5c ,00,\
>> 6c,00,75,00,6e,00,61,00,2e,00,6d,00,73,00,73,00,74 ,00,79,00,6c,00,65
>> ,00 ,73,\ 00,00,00
>>
>> ****
>>
>>
>> This *should* fix your issue for you. copy/paste the contents to
>> notepad and save it as "fixme.reg" then double click, regedit will
>> ask if its okay to import, say yes. and post back your results.
>
>
> nothing changed, thank you for trying.
>
>
>

Ouch. Okay, so is it the desktop tab missing when you right click and hit
properties, or are we going in the wrong direction?


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