Hide Control Panel

Control Panel is center of Windows settings. You can find every thing there. And it makes us easy to maintenance Windows because you need to open a window only. But on other hand, if it use by wrong hands, your Windows can be destroyed easily. To prevent it, you can hide or remove it from Start menu.

To hide Control Panel, we’ll modify registry value.

  1. Open Registry Editor by click Start -> Run, enter regedit in box and then press Enter.
  2. Navigate to path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policices \ Explorer.
    Explorer key
  3. Find NoControlPanel value, if you don’t find it, create it. To create it, right click Explorer key (or empty space on right panel), and then click New -> DWORD value menu.
    New DWORD value
  4. Then replace the original value with NoControlPanel value.
    NoControlPanel value
  5. Double click NoControlPanel value and replace its value data from 0 to 1.
    Change value
  6. Close Registry Editor and restart your computer.
  7. The Control Panel has been disappeared.
    Result

To show Control Panel, just give NoControlPanel value data to 0 or delete NoControlPanel value.

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