This will work:

Open the search engine of your choice and type (or copy and paste) this
into the search box:

change windows xp control panel to category view
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Jorge Cervantes wrote:
Here is a minor irritation. Whenever I click Control Panel, I see Classical
View with about 40+ icons.
But I am more familiar with handling Category View. How can I change from
Classical to Category View.

In fact, when my children visited us, they changed Start Menu into Classical
Start Menu on my laptop.
I changed it to the default Start Menu. But Control and other menus still
remain in classical view. Jorge