Remove unwanted items from control panel

[Stephen Lo]

I want to remove the following items which i NEVER use from the control
panel of WinXP Pro SP2.

Scanner and camera
Windows cardspace
Wireless Network Setup Wizard

I put the corresponding applets:

sticpl.cpl
infocardcpl.cpl
irprops.cpl

in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load with a "no" data. but they
still appear in the control panel.

I also unchecck the last two applets in Control Panel of MS TweakUIXP
still don't work as desired (the first item could be found in TweakUI)

Please help, thank you!!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I want to remove the following items which i NEVER use from the control
panel of WinXP Pro SP2.

Scanner and camera
Windows cardspace
Wireless Network Setup Wizard

I put the corresponding applets:

sticpl.cpl
infocardcpl.cpl
irprops.cpl

in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load with a "no" data. but they
still appear in the control panel.

You did it backwards. If you don't want them to load, the value of the
don't load registry key should be "Yes."

 

[Stephen Lo]

You did it backwards. If you don't want them to load, the value of the
don't load registry key should be "Yes."

"No", "Yes" or blank work for all the others except sticpl.cpl;
infocardcpl.cpl & irprops.cpl.

Any other suggestion, thank you!!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

It's because the "Scanner and Camera" is a namespace object. To hide it, you use the "NonEnum" registry key.

For example, see Method 2 here:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/hidemnp.htm

Note that the link above talks about "My Network Places". For "Scanner and Camera" the GUID string is given below:

{E211B736-43FD-11D1-9EFB-0000F8757FCD}

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

You did it backwards. If you don't want them to load, the value of the
don't load registry key should be "Yes."

"No", "Yes" or blank work for all the others except sticpl.cpl;
infocardcpl.cpl & irprops.cpl.

Any other suggestion, thank you!!

 

[Stephen Lo]

It's because the "Scanner and Camera" is a namespace object. To hide it, you use the "NonEnum" registry key.

For example, see Method 2 here:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/hidemnp.htm

Note that the link above talks about "My Network Places". For "Scanner and Camera" the GUID string is given below:

{E211B736-43FD-11D1-9EFB-0000F8757FCD}

Thank you, It works. How about the other two:

Windows cardspace and Wireless Network setup wizard?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Wireless Network setup wizard

In the "don't load" registry key, set netsetup.cpl value data as "yes". The "Network Setup Wizard" and the "Wireless Network Setup Wizard" applets should disappear.

No idea. I don't have this item in my system.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

It's because the "Scanner and Camera" is a namespace object. To hide it, you use the "NonEnum" registry key.

For example, see Method 2 here:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/hidemnp.htm

Note that the link above talks about "My Network Places". For "Scanner and Camera" the GUID string is given below:

{E211B736-43FD-11D1-9EFB-0000F8757FCD}

Thank you, It works. How about the other two:

Windows cardspace and Wireless Network setup wizard?