Five tricks to make the control panel "belong to yourself"

If you want to know which control panel option icon to open in Windows XP, the new organization method of Windows XP is not that convenient, it only means you need to click more. This article will introduce you to five methods to make the control panel "belong to yourself" so that you can easily customize the control panel in any version of Windows, make it unique to meet everyone's needs.

1. Custom Method

In fact, Microsoft's custom control panel options can partially meet the user's needs for personalized settings. In Windows 2000/Me/XP, you can set the function options in the control panel to the sub-menu under the "Start" * "Settings" menu. In Windows XP, right-click "Taskbar" and select "properties" to go to the "Taskbar and [start] menu" dialog box, select the [start] menu tab, click the "Custom" button, enter the "custom [start] menu" dialog box, and select the "advanced" tab, in the "[start] menu item" option, select "Control Panel" * "display as menu" to define its display as a menu, click "OK" consecutively and close all windows. If you are using a Windows 98 system, refer to the "re-launch" method section below.

You can still view the function icons in the control panel in the window mode by selecting "start" * "set" * "Control Panel ", double-click the "control panel" option or right-click it and select "open" or "Browse. You can also customize the "control panel" window just like defining other folders. Select "icon", "list", and "details" from the "View" menu.

2. Group Policy Method

Although you cannot add function icons or rename or change the icon appearance in the control panel, you can delete unnecessary icons. Select "start" * "Search" * "file or folder" (in Windows 2000/Me) or "start" * "Search" (in Windows XP ). Enter "*. cpl" in the first text box on the left side of the "Search Results" window, specify the relevant path in "search range", and click "Search now" or "Search. The control panel file is located in the System or System32 folder. If you need to move some function icons, you can move the related projects to any other folder.

But sometimes the names of these files are not very intuitive. In this way, you have to double-click these files before moving the icons to verify whether they are the project you need to move. For example, double-click "prefcpl. cpl file, in fact, is to open the "properties" dialog box of RealPlayer, move this. the cpl file can remove the RealPlayer icon from the Control Panel (of course, the premise is that the RealPlayer software has been installed in your system ). However, this method only applies to third-party icons in Windows XP, and the system automatically restores the icons if they are moved. Note: The "main. cpl" file is associated with several different control panel function icons, including fonts, keyboards, mouse, and printers. If you move this file, the icon of the above function will be removed at the same time.

In Windows 2000/XP, a simple way to delete the functional icons in the control panel is to use the "Group Policy" editor. Select Start * Run and enter gpedit. msc ". In the "Tree" directory on the left of the "Group Policy" window, select "Local Computer Policy" * "user configuration" * "management template" * "Control Panel ". Then, double-click the "implicit Control Panel application applet" project in the "Policy" Panel on the right. In the displayed dialog box, select the "enable" option in the "Policy" tab and click "show. In the displayed content dialog box, click Add. In the Add project dialog box, enter the name of the icon displayed in the control panel, and click OK. Repeat the last two steps to delete Multiple Control Panel icons.

In addition, you should also note that after you enter the names of all icons to be deleted, Please carefully check whether spelling errors exist in the displayed content dialog box. If you have changed your mind after completing the above operations, just select the corresponding project, click "delete" to delete the item from the list, and then click "OK" twice. It should be noted that this method applies to any functional icons on the control panel, including those non-Microsoft Application icons, but not to the new classification icons on Windows XP.

3. Hiding

The Windows System Policy Editor can delete a specific tab from the middle of some control panel dialogs, rather than deleting the entire control panel icon. In Windows 9x/me, find and double-click the deployment poledit.exe file in the installation disc. If the system prompts that a template file is required, search for the admin. adm file on the hard disk and open it. Select "file" * "open registry" in the "System Policy Editor" window, and double-click "Local User" to open the "local user attributes" dialog box. Select the "control panel" icon and press "*" in the numeric keyboard area to expand all branches under this icon. Here, you can hide some tabs and buttons in the control panel. For example, in the "System" project, select the "restrict 'system' control panel" option. Then, in the "restrict 'system' Control Panel Settings" project list at the bottom of the dialog box, select the items you want to hide, such as the "Hide device management page" or "hide" Virtual Memory "button. Click "OK" and select "file" * "save". The changes will take effect immediately. To cancel the modification operation, you only need to return to the corresponding dialog box, and then cancel the selected option and save it.

In Windows 2000/XP, you can select "start" * "run" and enter "gpedit. msc, go to "Local Computer Policy" * "user configuration" * "management template" * "Control Panel ". Select a project in the left-side Navigation Pane and set it in the Policy window on the right.

4. Common shortcuts

It is useful to know how to delete some icons from the control panel or some tabs from some dialogs. But why not try completely custom settings? Why not use your favorite project name to customize the control panel? Right-click the start button and select the open option. Create a sub-Folder similar to the control panel (the name used by the author is "contr & ols ", in this way, you can press Ctrl + Ecs + o to open it ). Open the "control panel" window. In the "category View" mode of Windows XP, select a category. Then, select the functional icons you want to include in the custom control panel, right-click them and drag them to the new folder. Release the mouse and select the "Create shortcut at the current position" option in the shortcut menu. You can rename these shortcuts to access them through keyboard shortcuts.

5. Set your own policies

You can also create a control panel with multiple tabs to replace the default control panel of Windows. First, confirm that the. cpl file is placed in the Windows System or System32 System directory and corresponds to the functional charts in the control panel. Then, right-click the folder window in which you want to create the control panel shortcut, right-click in the blank area of the window, select "new" * blank ", and add a Space key and the folder to be opened. cpl file name. Enter two commas (,) and the tab value you want to open. Tab values are arranged from left to right starting with "0. For example, if you want to create a shortcut to enable sound and multimedia properties or sound and audio device properties, and display the 2nd tabs in front (in Windows XP, the "sound" tab is called, in Windows 9x/me, the audio frequency is listed as the audio frequency, and the parameter control.exe mmsys is input in the parameter creation formula dialog box. cpl1 ". Click "Next", enter the created shortcut name, and click "finish.