Hide the Add Hardware system icon in Control Panel.
You can customize the display of the Control Panel applets. With this setting, you can hide the "Add Hardware" 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 "add hardware" system icon from the current applets list displayed in control panel. "add hardware" helps you to install software/device driver for added hardware on your computer. Important: the applet is named as "add/remove hardware" in windows 2000. For this, go to start > run, enter "regedit" and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a string value "hdwwiz.cpl" in "dont load" sub key, if this value does not exist. Setting the value data to "no" will hide the system icon "add hardware" in control panel. The changes will take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: in the control panel window, the "add hardware" system icon is shown by default. If you'd like to show this icon again, you can delete the registry value name "hdwwiz.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 "add hardware" system icon from the current applets list displayed in control panel. "add hardware" helps you to install software/device driver for added hardware on your computer. Important: the applet is named as "add/remove hardware" in windows 2000. For this, go to start > run, enter "regedit" and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a string value "hdwwiz.cpl" in "dont load" sub key, if this value does not exist. Setting the value data to "no" will hide the system icon "add hardware" in control panel. The changes will take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: in the control panel window, the "add hardware" system icon is shown by default. If you'd like to show this icon again, you can delete the registry value name "hdwwiz.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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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 create a String Value "hdwwiz.cpl" by right-clicking in the open area.
Next, right-click on hdwwiz.cpl to modify its data value.
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: hdwwiz.cpl
- Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
- Enabled Value: No
- Action Type: Add an Entry
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