[WEB4LIB] locked out of "display" in control panel

[Jeff]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Anna Loan-Wilsey wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am in the process of "testing" old PCs to be used as OPAC only
> workstations. Most have been in a storage closet longer than I've been here
> (year and a half).  I have one that I "think" came from a computer lab
> who's administrator is long gone.  It is a x486 -90 Gateway 2000 running
> Win95.  My problem is that it won't let me access the Display in the
> Control Panel.  I get a "your systems administrator disabled the display
> control panel" message.

Anna-

The MS Windows System Policy Editor is just a template and update system
for editing the registry. Try investigating the following:

#include <stdwinregeditdisclaim.h> *

Look in one of the following two Windows registry locations:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Seek the values below, which can influence the operation of the Display
control panel.

NoDispAppearancePage
NoDispBackgroundPage
NoDispScrSavPage
NoDispSettingsPage

If any of the above exist and are set to 1, either remove them, or set
them to zero.

* Standard Windows registry editing disclaimer applies.

If that doesn't work, or you encounter additional problems with
policy-related settings, you might look around in the following two
registry locations (and their sub-keys) for more restrictions to disable.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\

Good luck, and let us know how things turn out.

-jeff

-- 
Jeff Godin
Network Specialist
Traverse Area District Library / Traverse Community Network
jeff at tcnet.org