Show the Data Sources (ODBC) system icon in Control Panel.
You can customize the display of the Control Panel applets. With this setting, you can show the "Data Sources (ODBC)" system icon in 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 "data sources (odbc)" system icon from the current applets list displayed in control panel. "open database connectivity (odbc)" is used to access data from a variety of applications, regardless of which database management systems are handling the data. For this, go to start > run, enter "regedit" and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can delete the string value "odbccp32.cpl" from the "dont load" sub key, if it exists. Simply deleting the string value can show the system icon "data sources (odbc)" in the control panel. The changes will take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: in the control panel window, the "data sources (odbc)" system icon is hidden by default. If you'd like to hide this icon again, you can add the string value name "odbccp32.cpl" in the key listed below and set its data value to "no". 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 "data sources (odbc)" system icon from the current applets list displayed in control panel. "open database connectivity (odbc)" is used to access data from a variety of applications, regardless of which database management systems are handling the data. For this, go to start > run, enter "regedit" and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can delete the string value "odbccp32.cpl" from the "dont load" sub key, if it exists. Simply deleting the string value can show the system icon "data sources (odbc)" in the control panel. The changes will take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: in the control panel window, the "data sources (odbc)" system icon is hidden by default. If you'd like to hide this icon again, you can add the string value name "odbccp32.cpl" in the key listed below and set its data value to "no". 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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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 delete the String Value "odbccp32.cpl" if it already exists by right-clicking in the open area.
Finally, deleting the string value can result in showing the "Data Sources (ODBC)" system icon in the Control Panel window.
Registry Entries
- back to top- Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load\]
- Location: Current User
- Value Name: odbccp32.cpl
- Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
- Action Type: Add an Entry
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