Registry Tweak – Enabling/Disabling the Display properties

By Luke

Here is a registry tweak which you could use to disable your display properties. First of all read this post on how to backup the registry, it is always important to backup the registry before modifying it just in case.

I will describe how to perform this tweak in a few steps.

1.Open the registry – Open Start > Run > Type ‘regedit’.
2.Locate the location in the registry to place the data – In the left Tree-view windows navigate to“HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem” if any of the keys (directories) are missing create it. If they are all there skip to step 4

3. Create a key – if for example “Policies” is missing, right click “current version” and select new key.

4. Right-click “System” and select new DWORD value.

5. Rename the value to “nodispcpl”.

6. Double click the value and type 1 for the value data.

7. Close the registry, now test it.(you might have to restart the computer first)

8. Open Desktop > Right-click > Properties, If you get a message saying that the display properties have been disabled by your administrator, the tweak was successful.

9. To enable the control panel again, open the registry and delete the value or replace the value data with “0”.

This tweak is particularly useful if you wish to limit any other users altering your computer’s settings, also some viruses disable this feature just to cause some trouble to the host computer, using the above steps you can enable your display properties again.

Alternatively you can use Disk Heal and perform this same tweak by just ticking off a single check box.

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22 Comments so far

BJA August 5, 2008 9:32 am

thanks This Worked For Me

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Peter Monroe September 26, 2008 5:07 am

Great tweak. I did it even though I really had no need to. Oh well, no one can change my screen saver now!!! Hahaha!

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Danny Cooper October 21, 2008 6:34 pm

I think they did it on all our school computers.

Another use is setting horrible background pictures then disabling it. Then hoping they don’t know how to right click – set as background.

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Dewaji SEO Test reply on January 7th, 2009 2:04 pm:
Hi Danny, I do this to all my computer, I don’t want anyone mess up my pc

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beginner computer help November 24, 2008 7:51 am

Hello luq,

Nice hacks, I just try it on my pc for fun and it work. Then I disable it since there is nobody will mess up with my pc

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Dewaji SEO Test January 7, 2009 2:05 pm

I want to make a reply on danny comment but the captcha image not show only this captcha_img

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luq reply on January 7th, 2009 4:37 pm:
Your comment to Danny has been made, also comments do not require entering captcha text, what exactly did you see?

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beloed January 14, 2009 7:04 am

Hi, Thanks for that Step-by- step tips.

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Busby SEO Test January 17, 2009 8:39 am

thankyou for this trick, do you know how to optimize registry to make my windows more fast than before ?

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luq reply on January 17th, 2009 11:13 am:
This post might help:

http://www.computer-realm.net/seven-ways-to-speed-up-your-pc/

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Registry Cleaner Review February 15, 2009 9:36 am

Just make sure you backup your reg file before you make any changes to it. I’ve learned this hard way and I’ve managed to destroy my o/s before but not backing up.

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Wigs March 2, 2009 10:10 am

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luq reply on March 2nd, 2009 4:09 pm:
Thanks for the suggestion, i’ll look into different ways of presentation. Right now i’m pressed for time and implementing new features such as these requires more time and effort than a text based explanation. Thanks for the comment once again.

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Cisco Certifications April 6, 2009 3:36 pm

This worked! Thanks.

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RegCure April 28, 2009 12:12 am

Some users need this setting as they can create a number of unnecessary support issues for us techies. Great tip.

Thanks.

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bharat April 16, 2010 1:49 pm

HI , if i make any change in the file then that change will be displayed in the registry , i want to make stop those modification in the registry.
can any one suggest me the method

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Sally Lassa July 12, 2010 4:10 pm

Helloadmin I like with ur news . May i use this article for my school test ? thanks admin

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Jaydee July 22, 2010 6:56 pm

I love fixing computer…
I use ccleaner for windows registry and other disabling startup program.

thanks for your pointers and new ideas…

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Leo March 10, 2011 2:34 am

This is stupid. I am the computer administrator but I have not been allowed to change the display settings myself.

Also, when I logged in to a standard account (that has already been set up prior to the change) they could still change the display settings.

What have I done wrong?

Please e-mail me: bad_aso@yahoo.com.ph

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