Hide or Display Control Panel Icons

To edit some values in Control Panel, it may cause problems and impair some parts of Windows. Therefore, we had better hide some icons in order to prevent others from changing the values. Today’s tip lets you know how to hide the important icons in Control Panel.

• Go to Start > Run and type regedit then press Enter.
• In the Registry Editor window, find the path like this,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don’t load

• Right click on ” don’t load ” folder and select New > String Value.

• Name the created String Value related to the Control Panel icon you want it to be hidden. To illustrate, I would like to hide the icon, Accessibility Option, so I must name the String Value access.cpl . Each String Value name is specific and varies with the Control Panel icon. For the other icons, you can find the name below,

String Value Name              Control Panel Icons
    access.cpl                                Accessibility Applet
    appwiz.cpl                               Add/Remove Programs Applet
    console.cpl                              Console Applet
    timedate.cpl                           Date and Time Applet
    desk.cpl                                  Display Applet
    fax.cpl                                     Fax Applet
    hdwwiz.cpl                             Hardware Wizard Applet
    irprops.cpl                              Infrared Port Applet
    intl.cpl                                     International and Regional Applet
    inetcpl.cpl                               Internet Settings Applet
    joy.cpl                                     Joystick Applet
    liccpa.cpl                                 Licensing Applet
    main.cpl                                  Mouse and Keyboard Applet
    mlcfg32.cpl                             Mail Applet
    mmsys.cpl                              Sound and Multimedia Applet
    modem.cpl                              Modem and Phone Applet
    ncpa.cpl                                   Network and connectivity Applet
    netcpl.cpl                                Network and Dial-up Connectivity Applet
    nwc.cpl                                    Netware Client Applet
    odbccp32.cpl                          ODBC Applet
    devapps.cpl                            PC Card Applet
    ports.cpl                                  Ports Applet
    powercfg.cpl                           Power Management Applet
    sitcpl.cpl                                  Scanner and Camera Applet
    srvmgr.cpl                              Server Manager Applet
    sapi.cpl                                    Speech Properties Applet
    sysdm.cpl                                System Applet
    telephon.cpl                            Telephony Applet
    tweakui.cpl                             TweakUI Applet
    nusrmgr.cpl                            User Manager Applet
    wspcpl32.cpl                           WSP Client Applet
    quicktime.cpl                          QuickTime Applet
    S32LUCP1.cpl                         Norton Live Update Applet
    cpqmgmt.cpl                           Compaq Insight Agents Applet

• Double click on access.cpl .
• Type Yes to hide the Accessibility Option icon and then click OK button.
• Open Control Panel, the Accessibility Option icon is now hidden.
• In case you want the icon to display again, just type No instead of Yes in Value Data dialog.