Ive inquired about this a few times already and havent come up with any method of reg tweaks to place control panel icons on the desktop... only 2 options I was able to come up with however.... 1.  Create the shortcut manually by dragging the Control Panel icon to desktop or right click and Sent To > Desktop.  Then toss this someplace on your UACD and have it copied to your desktop as part of your installation. 2.  If you goto C:\WINDOWS\system32, youll noticed a bunch of .cpl files.  If you double click them youll notice that they launch control panel sections.  You could always copy the appropriate file (inetcpl.cpl for Internet Options) or create a shortcut to it via batch file or the such.... If someone has figured out another method, by all means post up cause Ive been looking for one for a while now! Hope this helps!  You wanted it, so here is a quick and easy, and IMHO very pretty way to do it. Save the following into a .reg file: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Add Item to the Desktop [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{6d73666e-2e6f-7267-0666-000000000001}]  ;Item Details [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6d73666e-2e6f-7267-0666-000000000001}] "InfoTip"="Internet Options Desktop Icon - By DaCheetah" "NeverShowExt"="" @="Internet Options"  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6d73666e-2e6f-7267-0666-000000000001}\DefaultIcon] @="C:\\WINNT\\system32\\inetcpl.cpl,27"  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6d73666e-2e6f-7267-0666-000000000001}\Shell\Open] @="Open Internet &Options Control Panel" "SuppressionPolicy"=dword:4000003c  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6d73666e-2e6f-7267-0666-000000000001}\Shell\Open\Command] @="rundll32.exe shell32,Control_RunDLL inetcpl.cpl"  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6d73666e-2e6f-7267-0666-000000000001}\ShellFolder] "Attributes"=hex:00,00,00,00 And run it. Tada!   To uninstall, do the same thing with this:  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Remove Item from the Desktop [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{6d73666e-2e6f-7267-0666-000000000001}]  ;Remove Item Details [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6d73666e-2e6f-7267-0666-000000000001}]