Policy

Always open All Control Panel Items when opening Control Panel

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Always open All Control Panel Items when opening Control Panel
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Control Panel
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2003 operating systems or Windows XP Professional

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2003, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista, WindowsXP

This policy setting controls the default Control Panel view, whether by category or icons. If this policy setting is enabled, the Control Panel opens to the icon view. If this policy setting is disabled, the Control Panel opens to the category view. If this policy setting is not configured, the Control Panel opens to the view used in the last Control Panel session. Note: Icon size is dependent upon what the user has set it to in the previous session.

Internal name
ForceClassicControlPanel
Policy ID
64fb97594bf9
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
ForceClassicControlPanel
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
ForceClassicControlPanel
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.