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Windows 7 Control Panel Customization?

#1 User is offline   UltimateSilence 

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 03:56 AM

How do I customize the Control Panel? Or is this an error? (I do apologize for the 'stupid' question, but I'm still a little new with 7). It currently looks like this...
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The "bar" on the left-hand side is missing... It was so beautiful in contrast to Vista's.

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 04:08 AM

AFAIK the Control Panel screen doesn't allow any easy changes.

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 04:19 AM

See the top right corner where is says "View By:"?

Click that....

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 05:36 AM

Hi Kelsenellenelvian:

I unwillingly omitted that option.
Thanks for your correction.

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 02:03 PM

View PostKelsenellenelvian, on 24 December 2011 - 04:19 AM, said:

See the top right corner where is says "View By:"?

Click that....


You think I haven't tried that? :P

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 02:14 PM

I completly MISSED this line here:

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The "bar" on the left-hand side is missing... It was so beautiful in contrast to Vista's.


Sorry

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 02:39 PM

You can add this registry key to always show menus:

First option:

Menus.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"AlwaysShowMenus"=dword:00000001



2nd option:
Or browse to: Control Panel | Appearance and personalization | Folder Options | Display . And select : Always show menus

*Edit: But about the left pane color (image) like Vista...It's not the same on Windows 7!

*Edit 2: You can change the left pane image inside: %windir%\System32\shell32.dll -> Bitmap -> 632 & 633

http://www.msfn.org/...d-on-windows-7/

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Posted 07 January 2012 - 04:49 AM

You can see "view by" the top right corner in control panel

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