Control Panel Views

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My Control Panel is only available in Windows Classic
View. I'd like to be able to choose between Category view
and Classic view. I suspect that there's a value somewhere
in the Registry (probably in HKEY_CURRENT_USER) that needs
to be changed. I find that if I go to the following
location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer
and change the value of ForceClassicControlPanel from 1 to
0, I can get the Category view but I lose the Classic
view. Ideas anyone?
 
khrob said:
My Control Panel is only available in Windows Classic
View. I'd like to be able to choose between Category view
and Classic view. I suspect that there's a value somewhere
in the Registry (probably in HKEY_CURRENT_USER) that needs
to be changed. I find that if I go to the following
location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer
and change the value of ForceClassicControlPanel from 1 to
0, I can get the Category view but I lose the Classic
view. Ideas anyone?
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You should not have to be messing in the registry for this !
In 'Control Panel', what does the first-pane in the left-hand panel say ?
 
My Control Panel is only available in Windows Classic
View. I'd like to be able to choose between Category view
and Classic view. I suspect that there's a value somewhere
in the Registry (probably in HKEY_CURRENT_USER) that needs
to be changed. I find that if I go to the following
location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer
and change the value of ForceClassicControlPanel from 1 to
0, I can get the Category view but I lose the Classic
view. Ideas anyone?
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Try Folder Options> General and check Show Task Pane. Then open Control
Panel. Should now see the blue column with the Category View choice on the
left.
 
khrob said:
All I have in the left hand pane is See Also with the
choices "Windows Update" and "Help and Support"
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Do you not have the words 'Control Panel' in the left-pane, if you do,
thiere should be a double-arrow thing pointing down (if so click-it).
Sorry if I'm of beam, but am hopeing to solve the problem.
 
Thanks for trying to help. I'd visited the folder options
page before and selected "Show common tasks ..." but still
I don't get the choice of view on the left-hand pane of
the control panel. I continue to suspect some sort of
anomaly in the registry. I should mention if I create a
new user and log on as such the control panel choices are
as one would expect in XP.
 
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