VALUE HAS A VALUE IF ITS VALUE IS VALUED

If you find that for some programs listed in Add or Remove programs, the change and remove buttons not available, then you will have to perform a small registry change.

Open the registry editor. (Start > run > Regedit)

Then navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
There enter into the key of the application for which the change and remove buttons are not getting displayed.

Then look for the key “NoRemove” and change its value to 0.

Then look for the key “NoModify” and change its value to 0.

Now open Add or Remove Programs and you will find that the change and remove buttons appear.(Some times a restart may be necessary).

If you do not want users to be authenticated before using the system then you can make use of this trick. Note that for Windows with multiple users it is not recommended to disable the start up login dialog box.This will affect privacy.

Open the run dialog (start > run).

Type "Control Userpasswords2" without quotes and click ok.

In the resulting User Accounts dialog box, uncheck the "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" check box.

Click the apply button.

If you want to hide certain control panel icons, you can easily do it by editing the control.ini file.
The control.ini file is present in the c:/windows.
Just open the file.

Initially the control.ini file will be empty.

If you want to hide a control panel icon in control panel, just add the

[don't load] tag followed by the name of the control panel file and then save the file.
For example :
[don't load]
access.cpl=no
The above will hide the accessibility options from control panel.
You can re enable the icon file by removing the corresponding line if you have multiple entries.
You can search for all the files with the extension .cpl, to know the names of the control panel file which you want to hide, using the control.ini file.
Note that you will have to reboot the system for the changes to take effect.

Below is a step by step procedure for creating Run commands to open any program you want :
1) Open Start Menu and click on RUN.

2) Now type regedit and hit Enter. (regedit means Registry Editor)


3) Now navigate to the following path :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >> SOFTWARE >> Microsoft >> Windows >> CurrentVersion >> App Paths