Hide the Display system icon in Control Panel.
You can customize the display of the Control Panel applets. With this setting, you can hide the Display system icon from the current applets group.
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Description:
Control panel is a repository of various applets/administrative tools that can be used to configure the windows, applications and services environment. If you go to start > settings and select control panel, windows will open the control panel window. This setting can hide the display system icon from the current applets list displayed in control panel. The display system icon enables you to set view and behavior of your desktop like background, screen saver, colors, font size and screen resolution. For this, go to start > run, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a string value desk.cpl in dont load subkey, if this value does not exist. Setting the value data to no will hide the display system icon in control panel. The changes will take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: in the control panel window, the display system icon is shown by default. If you'd like to show this icon again, you can delete the registry value name desk.cpl. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
Control panel is a repository of various applets/administrative tools that can be used to configure the windows, applications and services environment. If you go to start > settings and select control panel, windows will open the control panel window. This setting can hide the display system icon from the current applets list displayed in control panel. The display system icon enables you to set view and behavior of your desktop like background, screen saver, colors, font size and screen resolution. For this, go to start > run, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a string value desk.cpl in dont load subkey, if this value does not exist. Setting the value data to no will hide the display system icon in control panel. The changes will take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: in the control panel window, the display system icon is shown by default. If you'd like to show this icon again, you can delete the registry value name desk.cpl. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
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The system icon "Display" reappears in the 'Control Panel' window.
First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Second, go to <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load\]</b> and right-click in the open area to create a String Value "desk.cpl".
Next, right-click to modify the value of created string desk.cpl.
Finally, set the Value Data as No in the textbox provided and click on 'OK' .
Registry Entries
- back to top- Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load\]
- Location: Current User
- Value Name: desk.cpl
- Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
- Enabled Value: No
- Action Type: Add an Entry
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