Display has disappeared!!

hello all , new to mac... went to change screensaver tonight and .... no Display in System Preferences, what have I inadvertently done???
Thanking you all in advance for any help!

Thanks for replying adam529 and sorry that i didn't make my post clearer.I wanted to change the photo I have as a screen saver so went to System Preferences , the icon for desktop and screen saver had disappeared... so I restarted the computer and it reappeared this time with with nothing in it ,which led me to post my question and went to bed! had a look this morning ,icon there this time it has Apple and Pictures as a list but if you click on either nothing happens. I have to say this forum is far better than Apple support but thats another story!!

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