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Prevent changes to hardware profiles settings (For All Users).

With this setting you can prevent changes to hardware profiles settings using the “Display” system icon in Control Panel.

Tweak for : Windows 98, Windows Me

Description:

You can prevent changes to the default hardware profiles settings using the “Display” system icon from the current applets list displayed in the Control Panel. This can be done by hiding the tab “Hardware Profiles” from the “System Properties” dialog box.

The “Hardware Profiles” tab enables to set up and store different hardware configurations. At startup, you can choose the profile you want to use.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkey “\System” does not exist, create it as explained below. Then, create a DWORD value “NoConfigPage” at both the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry paths.

Now, right-click and modify their values to “1” which can prevent changes to hardware profiles settings. However, if you want to enable the tab, change the value data to “0” or delete the added values.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

System

Data Type :

Key

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Registry Entry 2 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

NoConfigPage

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Registry Entry 3 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

NoConfigPage

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

'Hardware Profile' tab is hidden in the 'System Properties' dialog.

'Hardware Profile' tab is visible by default in the 'System Properties' dialog.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\] and create a new key as "System".

Create a new 'DWORD value' as "NoConfigPage".

Right Click on "NoConfigPage" and select 'Modify'.

Finally, set the value data as "1" and click 'OK'. Once you are done, follow the above steps to make similar changes on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry path.