How to change from Classical View to Category View for Control Panel?

[Jorge Cervantes]

Here is a minor irritation. Whenever I click Control Panel, I see Classical
View with about 40+ icons.
But I am more familiar with handling Category View. How can I change from
Classical to Category View.

In fact, when my children visited us, they changed Start Menu into Classical
Start Menu on my laptop.
I changed it to the default Start Menu. But Control and other menus still
remain in classical view. Jorge

 

[Leonard Grey]

This will work:

Open the search engine of your choice and type (or copy and paste) this
into the search box:

change windows xp control panel to category view

 

[Tim Meddick]

In Explorer, go to Control Panel.

Then, from the top menus, choose "View" > "Explorer Bar" > "Folders"

The word "Folders" should have a "tick" next to it and by clicking on it you dismiss
the folders at the side and is replaced by the default "helpful tasks" which in
Control Panel include :

"Switch to Category View"

(you get the same thing if you press the [X] in the corner of the "Folders"
side-panel in explorer to close the "Folders" view)

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[glee]

This will work:

Open the search engine of your choice and type (or copy and paste)
this into the search box:

change windows xp control panel to category view

ROTFL!
Hey, I did what you said, but Control Panel did not open at all! <eg>

 

[Olórin]

As an addendum to that, you need to have selected "Show common tasks in
folders" from Tools > Folder Options > "General" tab in Explorer in order to
get this. (As you say, this is XP's out-of-the-box default, but who knows
what changes have been made to OP's system.)

In Explorer, go to Control Panel.

Then, from the top menus, choose "View" > "Explorer Bar" > "Folders"

The word "Folders" should have a "tick" next to it and by clicking on it
you dismiss the folders at the side and is replaced by the default
"helpful tasks" which in Control Panel include :

"Switch to Category View"

(you get the same thing if you press the [X] in the corner of the
"Folders" side-panel in explorer to close the "Folders" view)

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

Here is a minor irritation. Whenever I click Control Panel, I see
Classical View with about 40+ icons.
But I am more familiar with handling Category View. How can I change
from Classical to Category View.

In fact, when my children visited us, they changed Start Menu into
Classical Start Menu on my laptop.
I changed it to the default Start Menu. But Control and other menus
still remain in classical view. Jorge

 

[Tim Meddick]

You cannot explain every contingency in a piece of advice contained within one [post]
reply...

I assume that the OP would re-post of his/her failure to obtain a desirable outcome
after following the advice given.

I would then be able to follow-up accordingly.

But thankyou for your accurate observations.

I see the OP is using OE to read / write his posts, so he will be able to "see" the
attached reg-file, which will, when imported, change the Control panel to "category
view".

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

As an addendum to that, you need to have selected "Show common tasks in folders"
from Tools > Folder Options > "General" tab in Explorer in order to get this. (As
you say, this is XP's out-of-the-box default, but who knows what changes have been
made to OP's system.)

In Explorer, go to Control Panel.

Then, from the top menus, choose "View" > "Explorer Bar" > "Folders"

The word "Folders" should have a "tick" next to it and by clicking on it you
dismiss the folders at the side and is replaced by the default "helpful tasks"
which in Control Panel include :

"Switch to Category View"

(you get the same thing if you press the [X] in the corner of the "Folders"
side-panel in explorer to close the "Folders" view)

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

Here is a minor irritation. Whenever I click Control Panel, I see Classical View
with about 40+ icons.
But I am more familiar with handling Category View. How can I change from
Classical to Category View.

In fact, when my children visited us, they changed Start Menu into Classical
Start Menu on my laptop.
I changed it to the default Start Menu. But Control and other menus still remain
in classical view. Jorge

 

[Tim Meddick]

I thought I'd reproduce the [last] reply I sent using standard format, after sending
a binary post.

You might try using this reg-file, which will, when imported, change the Control
panel to "category
view".

*NB Please note that you should not "be in" Control Panel while you actually import
the reg-file.

Download the reg-file from the web-page (link below) and double-click on it to import
it :

http://www.4shared.com/file/WbtxFonK/CP_CAT_VIEW.html

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.