You may encounter problems trying to change your display settings if you have a certain policy set to prevent you from doing so. If you try and run the display control panel applet either by right clicking on the desktop and selecting properties or clicking on Display from Control Panel you may receive the following message or something very similar.
Your System Administrator disabled the Display Control Panel
To fix this problem you can perform a simple registry fix.
- Start the registry editor by clicking on Start, Run and then type in regedit and click Ok.
- Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
- If you have an entry for NoDispCPL, double click it to open it
- If not you can create it by going to the Edit menu and selecting New and then DWORD value
- Enter a name of NoDispCPL and press enter
- Once you have this entry you should double click it and set the value to 0
Close the registry editor. The change will take effect immediately.
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