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HOW TO REMOVE CONTROL PANEL ON START MENU

Tips and trick to remove control panel on Start Menu (Windows XP)

Is your computer configuration often change because of your friends prank? First they are just borrowing your computer or laptop to do their homework or project, but after they’r done there’s always an evil for those who we call best friend to have their experimental with your computer. He just simply click a few setting and there’s gone our setting that we set up from the start. Yes i know it’s very annoying.

There’s a way to prevent this things happen again. We just need to hide control panel from the start menu, follow below step to hide it :

• Click Start Menu and choose “Run”
• Type “regedit” and enter it to open Program Registry Editor
• Choose “HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer”
• Click Edit menu and Choose “New | Dword Value”



• Type a new entry, name it “NoControlPanel”
• Double click it and give value “1″ on “Value data”
• Click OK to approve.

Now after done the step, we need restart the computer to take the effect. After you’ve return to Windows, try to click Start Menu again and see the result. Control Panel will dissapear from the list and now we can rest assure from those evil again

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