How To Recover/Repair the Windows Control Panel (*.cpl)
By TSM-Soft Enterprise (1StopWeb800.com)
In case you accidentally disable the Control Panel by using any of the Windows Tweaking program, that mean you no longer be able to access your Windows Control Panel, and all *.cpl files (Control Panel Program and including some of the Tweaking Program itself) in your computer will be disabled. You cannot do any setting in your computer seems you cannot run the Control Panel program, this is nightmares.
In order to recover or repair your Windows Control Panel, you need to edit your Windows Registry, because these Tweaking Program is actually change the setting in Windows Registry to achieve the objective. You don't need to format your computer if you want to recover your Control Panel, and you also don't need to re-install your Operating System (OS) because it wouldn't help at all.
Ok so how do we repair it? Be patient people, I'm now will show you the method. First of all you must need how to run the Registry Editor.
To run the Registry Editor, click on 'Start' button, its locate at the left bottom of your screen guys. Click on 'Run' and the 'Run' program will show up, type in 'regedit' in the Open file without the ''. And then the Registry Editor will show up, as you will see, there are 6 main keys. Ignore the rest, go to find the main key named HKEY_CURRENT_USER and double click on it, and you will be able to see there are many child keys stick under that main key. Now follow the sequence below to go inside the place where we have to do something:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
The last key you must open is Explorer, click on the Explorer and you will see many Binary Value on the right hand side windows, locate the Binary Value key named NoControlPanel and NoRestriction and delete them.
After you have deleted those 2 keys, close your Registry Editor and reboot your computer and you will happy to see your Control Panel back to you.
Please refer to the table below for summary:
1 Click on Start button
2 Click on Run Type 'regedit' without the ' '.
3 Open key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and Delete NoControlPanel and NoRestriction.
4 Reboot
You can actually learn many thing from your Windows Registry if you willing to spend a little time to play around it, but you should be careful because if you delete the important key your computer system will be interrupt, and that's a serious problem. Play it with caution.
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