When you right-click on the Desktop and choose Properties, a busy cursor may appear for a moment but the Display Properties dialog is not opened. Same may be the case when you double-click the Display icon in the Control Panel.
If you’re experiencing the above symptom, read below for the solution.
EXPAND A COPY OF THEMEUI.DLL
This happens if the file Themeui.dll is missing or corrupt. To fix the problem, extract a new copy of Themeui.dll from your Windows XP CD. Follow these steps:
1. Insert your Windows XP CD in the drive
2. Click Start, Run and type cmd.exe
3. In the Command Prompt window, type:
Note that there is an underscore ( _ ) at the end of the file name. It’s themeui.dl_
* Where X:\ represents the drive letter of your CD drive. To avoid formatting errors, copy the above command and paste it in the Command Prompt window, instead of typing it manually.
EXAMPLE
(Assumes H:\ is the drive letter of the CD drive)
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Actually one more step. You may need to register the dll. Open a second explorer window and navigate to the system32 folder drag the themeui.dll from the first window overtop regsvr32.exe to register the dll. That should fix it.