Create Cascading Options In Windows 8
To revert any changes to your Windows, Control Panel is the first and foremost way. You can configure your Windows according to your need, by making changes in the settings for different settings under the hood of Control Panel. Today, in this article, I’ll show you, how you can access Control Panel straight from Desktop context menu in Windows 8.
Add Control Panel To Desktop Context Menu
Now here is the how to part. The trick just requires the basic knowledge of Registry Editor such as creating, editing etc. of registry keys. So here we go…
Add Control Panel to context menu and create cascading menu
1. Press
Windows Key + R combination, type put
Regedt32.exe in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor.
2. Navigate here:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell
3. In the left pane of this location, create a subkey using Right Click -> New -> Key. Name it as
ControlPanel. Moving on, in the right pane of this newly created subkey, create three strings with corresponding data:
MUIVerb : Control Panel SubCommands : CP-Category;CP-Icons;|;CP-AllSettings;CP-AllTasks Icon : imageres.dll,-27 Add Cascade Options
4. Now head on to following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CommandStore
5. In the left pane of this location, create a subkey using Right Click -> New -> Key. Name it as
CP-AllSettings. It will automatically create a Default string in the right pane, modify its Value data by All Settings. Now in the right pane of this location, create a string
Icon with Value data as
imageres.dll,-27.
Follow this procedure, to create three more subkeys in the same location. Firstly name them as
CP-Icons,
CP-Category,
CP-AllTasks. (See Screenshot)
Now modify Default strings of these so created subkeys by following Value data:
CP-Icons: Icons View
CP-Category: Category View
CP-AllTasks: All Tasks
Finally, create a string
Icon with Value data as
imageres.dll,-27 in the right pane of each subkey independently.
6. Next, create the subkey of the key created in the step 5 i.e.
CP-AllSettings using same procedure. Name it as
command. In the right pane of command, edit the Value data of Default string to
explorer.exe shell:::{F90C627B-7280-45DB-BC26-CCE7BDD620A4}.
Similarly create subkeys of the subkeys create in step 5, i.e.
CP-Icons,
CP-Category,
CP-AllTasks and name them as command each.
In the right pane for each command subkey created, use following data:
For the subkey command of
CP-Icons, edit the Default string in the right pane to
explorer.exe shell:::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}.
For the subkey command of
CP-Category, edit the Default string in the right pane to
explorer.exe shell:::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}.
For the subkey command of
CP-AllTasks, edit the Default string in the right pane to
explorer.exe shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}.
To save your time, we’ve created ready-made registry file to added the Control Panel option to context menu in few clicks. You can download it
HERE.
That’s it. Now press
Windows Key + D to access Desktop and then right click, and get access to Control Panel.
source:thewindowsclub
