Ghost Control Panel

[Nick2588]

Does anyone else have this problem? I'm getting a weird "ghost" item appearing in Control Panel after an unattended install. It cannot be deleted and it never goes away.

[Alanoll]

I haven't seen that before. Perhaps you're copying over a CPL file that's not really a control panel applet.....

or a regtweak....

Is all you do an Unattended install, or do you customize it as well?

[Nick2588]

Hmm, moving over it shows "Schedule computer tasks to run automatically".

I have a registry tweak to remove network scheduled tasks... is this correct?

;Speed up Network Browsing by removing Network Scheduled Tasks
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}]

[Denney]

Are you using nLite? I have the same problem. I think it has to do with removing Task Scheduler.

[Denney]

@Nick2588: I found out from nuhi, you need to delete this registry key to get rid of that icon:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace]
"{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}"=-

Or just use the latest nLite and don't delete the nLite.cmd file.

[Nick2588]

I'm not using nLite, but this did solve my problem.

However, the registry entry should be:

;Remove ghost Control Panel icon
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}]

Because it is a folder that we are removing, not just a single value.

[Denney]

Heh... well at least I wrote "registry key" above it...