Looking for Start Menu/Control Panel Tweak

[Drac0]

Hi, been searching the forum here for so long looking for this particular tweak I almost have square eyes!

What I'm after is an XP version of a tweak I used to use on my old Win9x machines. It was a very simple registry tweak that turned the Control Panel link on the Start Menu into a folder that expanded out to another menu containing links to everything in the control panel. This gave access without having to open the Control Panel window.

Is there something similar available for for XP?

TIA

[MHz]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"Start_ShowControlPanel"=dword:00000002

If you look under this key in registry, you will see all the startmenu settings.

[Drac0]

Sorry, that doesn't appear to have any effect for me at all, what's it supposed to do?

I'm using Classic Start Menu & what I'm looking for is to be able to go:

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> [whatever from CP], all without leaving the start menu.

Was so simple to do under 9x and I'm supprised I haven't been able to find it for XP.

[JPamplin]

Sigh. The answer you're looking for is here:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
; Show hidden files
"Hidden"=dword:00000001
; Show compressed folders as a different color
"ShowCompColor"=dword:00000001
; show known file extensions
"HideFileExt"=dword:00000000
; show full path in titlebar
"DontPrettyPath"=dword:00000000
; shows "tips" when mouse over the folder like size
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000001
"HideIcons"=dword:00000000
"MapNetDrvBtn"=dword:00000000
"WebView"=dword:00000000
"Filter"=dword:00000000
"SuperHidden"=dword:00000001
"SeparateProcess"=dword:00000000
"Start_ShowControlPanel"=dword:00000002
"Start_AdminToolsRoot"=dword:00000002
"StartMenuAdminTools"="YES"
"Start_ShowMyComputer"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowMyDocs"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowRecentDocs"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowNetPlaces"=dword:00000001
"Start_AutoCascade"=dword:00000001
"ServerAdminUI"=dword:00000001
"ListviewAlphaSelect"=dword:00000001
"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000001
"ListviewWatermark"=dword:00000001
"TaskbarAnimations"=dword:00000001
"StartMenuInit"=dword:00000002
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000002
"StartMenuAdminTools"=dword:00000001
"StartMenuFavorites"=dword:00000001
"StartMenuLogoff"=dword:00000000
"StartMenuRun"=dword:00000001
"StartMenuChange"=dword:00000001
"CascadeControlPanel"="YES"
"CascadeMyDocuments"="YES"
"CascadeMyPictures"="YES"
"CascadeNetworkConnections"="YES"
"CascadePrinters"="YES"
"StartMenuScrollPrograms"="NO"
"IntelliMenus"=dword:00000001
"TaskbarSizeMove"=dword:00000000
"TaskbarGlomming"=dword:00000001
"NoNetCrawling"=dword:00000000
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000001
"FriendlyTree"=dword:00000001
"DisableThumbnailCache"=dword:00000000
"ClassicViewState"=dword:00000001
"PersistBrowsers"=dword:00000001
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000001
"WebViewBarricade"=dword:00000001
"ShowSuperHidden"=dword:00000000

CascadeControlPanel set to YES will give you a submenu under Control Panel in Classic View. I guess your eyes weren't square enough. ;-)

JP

[Drac0]

lol - thanks JPamplin, you're probably right.

But then again, I was looking for a single teak similar to what I found for the 9x version, not something burried away in a great list of settings. And when the setting doesn't exist at all, one way or the other, in the registry it isn't easy to notice.

[Tsunami]

If you're looking for a registry tweak so you can apply it during your unattended install, you should use this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"Start_ShowControlPanel"=dword:00000002
"CascadeControlPanel"="Yes"

If you're not looking for a registry tweak at all, just where you can find it in Windows, you're in the wrong forum But, because I'm very nice, I'll tell ya Right-click on the taskbar -> Properties -> Start Menu tab -> Customize... button -> Advanced tab -> Under Control Panel, check "Display as a menu".