Q. How can I add the Windows XP Tweak UI PowerToy to the Control Panel?

John Savill

December 1, 2004

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A. After you download TweakUI at the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP Web page and install it, tweakui.exe will be located in the %systemroot%system32 folder. To add tweakui.exe to the Control Panel folder, paste the following listing into a text file (name it tweakui.reg) or download tweakui.reg at Download, then execute it by double-clicking the file. When you open Control Panel, you'll have a TweakUI link.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}]@="TweakUI""InfoTip"="Starts TweakUI for Windows XP"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}DefaultIcon]@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,5c,00,74,00,77,00,65,00,61,00,6b,00,75,00,69,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,2c,00,30,00,00,00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}Shell][HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}ShellOpen][HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}ShellOpenCommand]@="tweakui.exe"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}ShellFolder]"Attributes"=dword:00000030[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerControlPanelNameSpace\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}]@="Tweakui for Control Panel"

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