Tweak Library – Hide “Control Panel” in new Start menu.

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Hide “Control Panel” in new Start menu.

This tweak can control the display of “Control Panel” in new Start menu.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista

Description:

Control Panel is a repository of various applets/administrative tools that can be used to configure the Windows, applications, and services environment. If you go to “Start > Settings” menu and select “Control Panel”, operating system will open the Control Panel window.

To avoid the display of “Control Panel” in new Start menu, apply this registry setting.

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

Now, right-click and modify the value to “0” which can hide “Control Panel” item from the new Start menu. However, if you want to show the item back, change the value data to “1” or delete the value.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

NOTE:
This setting will have no effect if you use the Classic Start menu display in Windows.

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Hide Control Panel in Start Menu.reg

The '.reg' file can hide "Control Panel" icon from the 'Start Menu'.

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Show Control Panel in Start Menu (Default).Reg

The '.reg' file can show "Control Panel" icon in the 'Start Menu' by default.

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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 :

Start_ShowControlPanel

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.

'Control Panel' item is hidden from the new Start Menu display.

'Control Panel' item is visible in the new 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\] and create a new 'DWORD value' as "Start_ShowControlPanel".

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

Finally, set the value data as "0" and click 'OK' to hide the 'Control Panel' item from the new Start Menu.