Tweak Library – Cascading “Control Panel” items inside the Start menu

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Cascading “Control Panel” items inside the Start menu (Current User).

This setting enables you to control the display of “Control Panel” either as cascade menu or as a folder link inside Start menu.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista

Description:

Cascade menu makes the items behave like menus with submenus instead of just opening the related folder. With this setting, you can make the “Control Panel” display its items in cascade menu rather than opening a folder link.

For this, go to Start > Run, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a String value “CascadeControlPanel”, if this value does not exist.

Now, right-click and modify the value to “Yes” which can show “Control Panel” items as a cascade menu. However, if you want to show folder display back, change the value data to “No” or delete the value.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

NOTE:
These settings will have no effect if you use the new (2-panel) display of the Start Menu in Windows.

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Cascade Control Panel in Setting in Start Menu.reg

The '.reg' file can cascade Control Panel items in Start Menu.

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Unexpand Control Panel in Setting in Start Menu (Default).reg

The '.reg' file can show the folder view of Control Panel items in Start Menu.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

CascadeControlPanel

Data Type :

REG_SZ (String Value)

Enabled Value :

Yes

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

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

Cascaded 'Control Panel' items inside the Start menu.

No cascading is applied on Control Panel items inside the Start menu by default.

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

Go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\] , right-click in the open area to create a String Value with the name "CascadeControlPanel" in "Advanced" key.

Next, right-click on "CascadeControlPanel" and click on 'Modify'.

Finally, enter the value User "Yes" in the text box and click on 'OK'.