Or, press Alt-Enter to open the Properties
window for the selected item without using the mouse at all.
Hide Unwanted Control Panel Icons
You can hide certain types of icons in Control Panel??™s Classic View with a
quick Registry hack. Just open the Registry Editor (explained in Chapter 3),
and expand the branches to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load.
Then, create a new string value for each icon you want to hide. For the name,
type the filename of the .cpl file responsible for the icon (see ???Shortcuts to
Control Panel pages,??? earlier in this chapter). Then, double-click the new
value, type No for its data, and click OK.
Refresh the Control Panel window by pressing the F5 key to see the change.
Now, there??™s a bug in Windows Vista that can crash Control Panel??”or at
least cause it to take a long time to load all its icons??”if there??™s an errant entry
in the don't load Registry key. If you??™re seeing the Green Ribbon of Death (see
Chapter 6) whenever you open Control Panel, delete all the values in the
don't load key and then try again.
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Shell Tweaks
History
Press Backspace in an open folder window to go back one step in the
window??™s history to the last folder you looked at, which is not necessarily
the parent folder.
You can also press the left or right arrow keys while holding Alt to go
back and forth through the folder history; these work just like the two
round arrow buttons in the upper left of any Explorer window.
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