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Old April 9th 10, 07:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Tim Meddick
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Default How to change from Classical View to Category View for Control Panel?

You cannot explain every contingency in a piece of advice contained within one [post]
reply...

I assume that the OP would re-post of his/her failure to obtain a desirable outcome
after following the advice given.

I would then be able to follow-up accordingly.

But thankyou for your accurate observations.

I see the OP is using OE to read / write his posts, so he will be able to "see" the
attached reg-file, which will, when imported, change the Control panel to "category
view".

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Olórin" wrote in message
...
As an addendum to that, you need to have selected "Show common tasks in folders"
from Tools Folder Options "General" tab in Explorer in order to get this. (As
you say, this is XP's out-of-the-box default, but who knows what changes have been
made to OP's system.)


"Tim Meddick" wrote in message
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In Explorer, go to Control Panel.

Then, from the top menus, choose "View" "Explorer Bar" "Folders"

The word "Folders" should have a "tick" next to it and by clicking on it you
dismiss the folders at the side and is replaced by the default "helpful tasks"
which in Control Panel include :

"Switch to Category View"

(you get the same thing if you press the [X] in the corner of the "Folders"
side-panel in explorer to close the "Folders" view)

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Jorge Cervantes" wrote in message
...
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









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