When you right-click an empty area of your desktop and press Properties, or use Control Panel / Display,
the Destop tab is missing from the Display Properties dialog.
This behavior will occur if the Turn on Classic Shell Group Policy setting is configured
at User Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Explorer
and the value of the
ClassicShell Value Name, a REG_DWORD data type, is NOT set to 0
at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer.
To resolve this issue:
1. Open a CMD.EXE Window.
2. Type the following command and press
Enter:
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" /V ClassicShell /T REG_DWORD /F /D 0