Adding Extra Options at My Computer

If you frequently use the Administrative Tools, Schedule Tasks, Printers and Faxes, Network Connections or Fonts in your work, maybe this article can help you. Usually to open them, you must first open the Control Panel. I will show you how to put them in Windows Explorer so that we can access them more quickly.

By default, if you open the Windows Explorer you will get the standard sidebar like picture below
Standard appearance in My Computer
and if you want to add more shortcut (Administrative Tools, Schedule Tasks, Printers and Faxes, Network Connections or Fonts) at there, follow these steps:

  1. Open Notepad, to open it you just click Start -> Run menu and then type notepad in textbox.
    Open Notepad
  2. And fill the Notepad with this script(you may copy – paste it):
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    3. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
    MyComputer\NameSpace\{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}]
    @=”Printers and Faxes”
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
    MyComputer\NameSpace\{D20EA4E1-3957-11D2-A40B-0C5020524153}]
    @=”Administrative Tools”
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
    MyComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}]
    @=”scheduled Tasks”
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
    MyComputer\NameSpace\{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}]
    @=”Network Connections”
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
    MyComputer\NameSpace\{D20EA4E1-3957-11D2-A40B-0C5020524152}]
    @=”Fonts”
    Type in notepad

  3. Save it and give the name that whatever you like and I give it the name ExtrasOptions.reg.
    Save in notepad
  4. And open the folder that contain you saved file from notepad and double click it.
    Open reg file
  5. You’ll get a confirmation box and click Yes button.
    Confirmation
  6. And you will get success message box.
    Success
  7. Restart you computer.
  8. Reopen your Windows Explorer and you can see the result like these both pictures.
    First result

    Second result

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