Poster
Sun Mar 02 04:11:16 PST 2008
Many thanks for those 2 .reg files Jean - that'll do me - didn't know
you could do that. Can 'Control Panel' be added to the same right-click
context menu?
Jean Rosenfeld wrote:
> To add services to contest menu:
>
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Services]
> @=hex(2):40,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,\
> 00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,72,00,73,00,76,00,63,00,\
> 2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,34,00,00,00
> "SuppressionPolicy"=dword:4000003c
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Services\command]
> @=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,\
> 00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,6d,00,63,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
> 65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,20,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,\
> 00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,65,00,\
> 72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,2e,00,6d,00,73,00,63,00,00,00
>
> "Jean Rosenfeld" <jean.rosenfeld@nospam.uk> wrote in message
> news:u1wfu4$eIHA.5560@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> As an alternative to adding it to control panel, you can add device
>> manager to the right click context menu of My Computer icon with a simple
>> registry edit. Copy/paste into Notepad the following lines, save as .reg
>> file. Double click on the .reg file to merge its contents
>>
>> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>>
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell]
>> @="none"
>>
>>
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr]
>> @=hex(2):40,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,\
>>
>> 00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,64,00,65,00,76,00,6d,00,67,00,\
>> 72,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,34,00,00,00
>> "SuppressionPolicy"=dword:4000003c
>>
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr\command]
>> @=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,\
>>
>> 00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,6d,00,63,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
>>
>> 65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,20,00,25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,\
>>
>> 00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,64,00,65,00,\
>> 76,00,6d,00,67,00,6d,00,74,00,2e,00,6d,00,73,00,63,00,00,00
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Poster Matt" <postermatt@no_spam_for_me.org> wrote in message
>> news:Oxkyj.16336$XI.9641@text.news.virginmedia.com...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Control Panel is a convenient and sensible place for Windows (XP, SP2) to
>>> store the various system utilities and dialogs.
>>>
>>> BUT 2 of the things I use most regulary, 'Device Manager' and 'Services',
>>> are started from either a secondary folder (Admin. Tools) or from the
>>> 'System' dialog's 'Hardware' tab -- how inconvenient !!
>>>
>>> Today after living with this inconvenience for many years I finally got
>>> around to creating 2 shortcuts in Control Panel, one for Device Manager
>>> and one for Services, only to find Control Panel won't let me add
>>> shortcuts. I've added shortcuts to them on my desktop which work fine,
>>> but I can neither add a shortcut nor copy one to Control Panel. On the
>>> desktop in fine in the short-term but can someone tell me how to add
>>> these shortcuts to Control Panel, which is, after all, their natural
>>> home.
>>>
>>> Many thanks.
>>>
>>> PS. In case anyone wants to know, use these file names from the
>>> run/command prompt/create shortcut to directly open Device Manager and
>>> Services respectively: devmgmt.msc and services.msc
>>>
>>> A list of file names for similar system dialogs/apps (EG. Disk
>>> Management, Event Viewer, etc.) can be found here:
>>>
>>>
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/mmc.htm
>>>
>>> HTH.
>>
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