How Add The Windows XP Tweak UI PowerToy To The Control Panel


How Add The Windows XP Tweak UI PowerToy To The Control Panel

After you download TweakUI at the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP Web page

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/download/tweakui_reg.zip,

then execute it by double-clicking the file. When you open the Control Panel, you'll have a TweakUI link.

tweakui_reg will add the following in you registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}]
@="TweakUI"
"InfoTip"="Starts TweakUI for Windows XP"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{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_ROOT\CLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}\Shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-
FC03B2F08C17}\Shell\Open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-
FC03B2F08C17}\Shell\Open\Command]
@="tweakui.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-
FC03B2F08C17}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:00000030

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
ControlPanel\NameSpace\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}]
@="Tweakui for Control Panel"
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