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Registry Tweak - Enabling/Disabling the Display properties

Author: luq | Files under security, software, tips, tutorials

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_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\System” 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.

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  1. BJA
    Aug 5, 2008 at 09:32:30
    #1

    thanks This Worked For Me

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  2. Peter Monroe
    Sep 26, 2008 at 05:07:14
    #2

    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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  3. Danny Cooper
    Oct 21, 2008 at 18:34:40
    #3

    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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  4. beginner computer help
    Nov 24, 2008 at 07:51:43
    #4

    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 :)
    beginner computer help’s last blog post..How do you block people from getting into your wireless internet?

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