changed display properties

External Since: Mar 04, 2005 Posts: 44

A friend of mine has done a very clever(stupid really)thing. He has somehow
managed to change the display properties to the same colour-BLACK-now he cant
see anything on his desktop. Can anyone tell me how he can change things back
to the way it was prior to the changes he made. He tells me its impossible to
see anything other than the cursor on the screen. Thanks Jim.

External Since: Jun 28, 2005 Posts: 159

In news:D94DC04F-14ED-4A74-8768-5C72C9882904@microsoft.com,
jim <jim.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine has done a very clever(stupid really)thing.
> He has
> somehow managed to change the display properties to the same
> colour-BLACK-now he cant see anything on his desktop. Can
> anyone tell
> me how he can change things back to the way it was prior to
> the
> changes he made. He tells me its impossible to see anything
> other
> than the cursor on the screen. Thanks Jim.

Tell your friend to restart his computer and boot into Safe
Mode. He may be able to simply change the display settings. If
that doesn't work, here's another option.

How to start the System Restore tool at a command prompt in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304449

Good luck

Nepatsfan