Error opening the Appearance Tab of Display

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Hi. I am using XP Pro SP1.
When I launched Control Panel, double-click the Display icon and open the
Appearance Tab, the following message appears:

An exception occurred while trying to run "shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
"D:\WINDOWS\System21\desk.cpl", Display"

After I click OK, the Display Property window disappears along with the
message and I can't change the theme of Windows.
How can I fix this? Thanks.

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Xero

http://www.chezjeff.net
My personal web portal

 

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Enable the Appearance Tab - Display:
http://kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/appearancetab.reg



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"Xero" <jeff_at_chezjeff_dot_net> wrote in message news:F766CC35-33F4-4568-A351-E2AD172BD03A@microsoft.com...
> Hi. I am using XP Pro SP1.
> When I launched Control Panel, double-click the Display icon and open the
> Appearance Tab, the following message appears:
>
> An exception occurred while trying to run "shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\WINDOWS\System32\desk.cpl", Display"
>
> After I click OK, the Display Property window disappears along with the
> message and I can't change the theme of Windows.
> How can I fix this? Thanks.
>
> --
> Xero
>
> http://www.chezjeff.net
> My personal web portal