Prevent changes to hardware profiles settings (For All Users).
With this setting you can prevent changes to hardware profiles settings using the Display system icon in Control Panel.
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You can prevent changes to the default hardware profiles settings using the display system icon from the current applets list displayed in the control panel. This can be done by hiding the tab hardware profiles from the system properties dialog box. The hardware profiles tab enables to set up and store different hardware configurations. At startup, you can choose the profile you want to use. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkey \system does not exist, create it as explained below. Then, create a dword value noconfigpage at both the hkey_current_user and hkey_local_machine registry paths. Now, right-click and modify their values to 1 which can prevent changes to hardware profiles settings. However, if you want to enable the tab, change the value data to 0 or delete the added values. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
You can prevent changes to the default hardware profiles settings using the display system icon from the current applets list displayed in the control panel. This can be done by hiding the tab hardware profiles from the system properties dialog box. The hardware profiles tab enables to set up and store different hardware configurations. At startup, you can choose the profile you want to use. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkey \system does not exist, create it as explained below. Then, create a dword value noconfigpage at both the hkey_current_user and hkey_local_machine registry paths. Now, right-click and modify their values to 1 which can prevent changes to hardware profiles settings. However, if you want to enable the tab, change the value data to 0 or delete the added values. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. 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\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\] </b> and create a new key as "System".
Create a new 'DWORD value' as "NoConfigPage".
Right Click on "NoConfigPage" and select 'Modify'.
Finally, set the value data as "1" and click 'OK'. Once you are done, follow the above steps to make similar changes on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry path.
Registry Entries
- back to top- Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\]
- Location: Current User
- Value Name: System
- Data Type: Key
- Action Type: Add an Entry
- Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\]
- Location: Current User
- Value Name: NoConfigPage
- Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
- Enabled Value: 1
- Disabled Value: 0
- Action Type: Add an Entry
- Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\]
- Location: Local Machine
- Value Name: NoConfigPage
- Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
- Enabled Value: 1
- Disabled Value: 0
- Action Type: Add an Entry
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