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}]