Windows Blinds / WOW Desktop Theme
I had a friend who bought my old computer from me. I had just wiped it and setup a fresh copy of XP and made sure that my EQ2 worked perfectly on it as it has in the past. I then gave it to him and noticed when I tried to play EQ2 on his PC, it was doing what you describe - it was crashing to the desktop if I tried to return to full screen mode.
For him, we found it was due to the fact that he installed the WORLD OF WARCRAFT desktop theme, which changes the start menu and other things in Windows... It seems it was locking a DLL (dxd9.dll or something) and not playing friendly with EQ2. Once we changed his desktop theme to something else and got away from the WOW desktop theme, it worked fine. It also seems that the WOW DESKTOP THEME is based off an old WINDOWS BLINDS program, which turned out to be the culprit for us. If you are still seeing these crashes, try changing to a standard windows theme, or download a newer copy of WINDOWS BLINDS and find a similar WOW theme, don't use the stand alone WOW theme....and that should take care of it for you.
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