can i add control panel win right click and all the icons system tray?

Drugo · Feb 21, 2024

hi
1)
is there a way to add the control panel on windows button right clicking on it and have it in the list ?
i have searched but i have found how add in the right mouse menu ,but not on the list of windows button
this

2)
system tray , can i have always all the icons automacly , without dragging and dropping ?

thanks

Mikaelo · Feb 21, 2024

try this Control panel missing from right-click on start menu

antspants · Feb 21, 2024

You can also add the Control Panel to desktop Context Menu

Add Control Panel to Desktop Context Menu in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to add "Control Panel" to the Desktop context menu for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Control Panel Desktop context menu allows you to quickly open the Control Panel in either the Category view, Icons view (large or small), or All Tasks (God Mode) on...

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Take a look at this Tutorial.

Turn On or Off Hidden Icon Menu on Taskbar System Tray in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the hidden icon menu for your account in Windows 11. The hidden icon menu (aka: taskbar corner overflow menu) shows the notification icons you turned off from showing on the system tray. Starting with Windows 11 build 22572, you can turn on or...

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Tutorial Searching is your friend

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Windows 11 tutorials, tricks, tips, and guides.

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Drugo · Feb 21, 2024

antspants said:
Turn On or Off Hidden Icon Menu on Taskbar System Tray in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the hidden icon menu for your account in Windows 11. The hidden icon menu (aka: taskbar corner overflow menu) shows the notification icons you turned off from showing on the system tray. Starting with Windows 11 build 22572, you can turn on or...

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Hi
it doesn't work ,the icons , and i have the last update
maybe it was to work with prev version
thanks

Mikaelo said:
try this Control panel missing from right-click on start menu

powershell as administrator , seems doesn't work
does it work to you?
seems for w10

Code:

$path = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group2"
$x = "UEsDBBQAAAAIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAQ29udHJvbCBQYW5lbC5sbmvzYWBgYBRhYgCBA2CSwa2B
mQEiQAAwovEnAzEnA8MCXSBtGBwQ/Kgrwm2Pj4Xz7j/Ck9Vm5J4ThCkURtIEUxyq4TO/cr6l94oLD6/oPrz6GaRYCK
aYEU1xtW7v74sTTPz2J+St4ZykvR+kmAmm+Og13laY6SLMYM0LVMsz81Iyi1RjiiuLS1JzjY1ikvPzSoryc/RSK1KJ
8eswAKoM5QyZDHkMKUCyCMiLYShmqATiEoZUhlwGYwYjoEgyQz5QRQlQPp8hh0EPKFPBMFLCZyQBAFBLAQIUABQAAA
AIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABDb250cm9sIFBhbmVsLmxua1BLBQYAAAAAAQABAD8A
AAAAAQAAAAA=".replace("`n","")
[Convert]::FromBase64String($x) | Set-Content $path\temp.zip -Encoding Byte
Expand-Archive $path\temp.zip -DestinationPath $path
Remove-Item $path\temp.zip
Stop-Process -Name Explorer

thanks

Mikaelo · Feb 21, 2024

Drugo said:
does it work to you?

Yes, it works for me. I have W11 23h2, 22631.3155

Mikaelo · Feb 21, 2024

Drugo said:

Hi
it doesn't work ,the icons , and i have the last update
maybe it was to work with prev version
thanks

powershell as administrator , seems doesn't work
does it work to you?
seems for w10

Code:

$path = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group2"
$x = "UEsDBBQAAAAIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAQ29udHJvbCBQYW5lbC5sbmvzYWBgYBRhYgCBA2CSwa2B
mQEiQAAwovEnAzEnA8MCXSBtGBwQ/Kgrwm2Pj4Xz7j/Ck9Vm5J4ThCkURtIEUxyq4TO/cr6l94oLD6/oPrz6GaRYCK
aYEU1xtW7v74sTTPz2J+St4ZykvR+kmAmm+Og13laY6SLMYM0LVMsz81Iyi1RjiiuLS1JzjY1ikvPzSoryc/RSK1KJ
8eswAKoM5QyZDHkMKUCyCMiLYShmqATiEoZUhlwGYwYjoEgyQz5QRQlQPp8hh0EPKFPBMFLCZyQBAFBLAQIUABQAAA
AIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABDb250cm9sIFBhbmVsLmxua1BLBQYAAAAAAQABAD8A
AAAAAQAAAAA=".replace("`n","")
[Convert]::FromBase64String($x) | Set-Content $path\temp.zip -Encoding Byte
Expand-Archive $path\temp.zip -DestinationPath $path
Remove-Item $path\temp.zip
Stop-Process -Name Explorer

thanks

$x = "UEsDBBQAAAAIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAQ29udHJvbCBQYW5lbC5sbmvzYWBgYBRhYgCBA2CSwa2BmQEiQAAwovEnAzEnA8MCXSBtGBwQ/Kgrwm2Pj4Xz7j/Ck9Vm5J4ThCkURtIEUxyq4TO/cr6l94oLD6/oPrz6GaRYCKaYEU1xtW7v74sTTPz2J+St4ZykvR+kmAmm+Og13laY6SLMYM0LVMsz81Iyi1RjiiuLS1JzjY1ikvPzSoryc/RSK1KJ8eswAKoM5QyZDHkMKUCyCMiLYShmqATiEoZUhlwGYwYjoEgyQz5QRQlQPp8hh0EPKFPBMFLCZyQBAFBLAQIUABQAAAAIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABDb250cm9sIFBhbmVsLmxua1BLBQYAAAAAAQABAD8A
AAAAAQAAAAA=".replace("`n","")

must be one line

Drugo · Feb 21, 2024

Mikaelo said:
$x = "UEsDBBQAAAAIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAQ29udHJvbCBQYW5lbC5sbmvzYWBgYBRhYgCBA2CSwa2BmQEiQAAwovEnAzEnA8MCXSBtGBwQ/Kgrwm2Pj4Xz7j/Ck9Vm5J4ThCkURtIEUxyq4TO/cr6l94oLD6/oPrz6GaRYCKaYEU1xtW7v74sTTPz2J+St4ZykvR+kmAmm+Og13laY6SLMYM0LVMsz81Iyi1RjiiuLS1JzjY1ikvPzSoryc/RSK1KJ8eswAKoM5QyZDHkMKUCyCMiLYShmqATiEoZUhlwGYwYjoEgyQz5QRQlQPp8hh0EPKFPBMFLCZyQBAFBLAQIUABQAAAAIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABDb250cm9sIFBhbmVsLmxua1BLBQYAAAAAAQABAD8A
AAAAAQAAAAA=".replace("`n","")

must be one line

hi
do you mean

Code:

$x = "UEsDBBQAAAAIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAQ29udHJvbCBQYW5lbC5sbmvzYWBgYBRhYgCBA2CSwa2BmQEiQAAwovEnAzEnA8MCXSBtGBwQ/Kgrwm2Pj4Xz7j/Ck9Vm5J4ThCkURtIEUxyq4TO/cr6l94oLD6/oPrz6GaRYCKaYEU1xtW7v74sTTPz2J+St4ZykvR+kmAmm+Og13laY6SLMYM0LVMsz81Iyi1RjiiuLS1JzjY1ikvPzSoryc/RSK1KJ8eswAKoM5QyZDHkMKUCyCMiLYShmqATiEoZUhlwGYwYjoEgyQz5QRQlQPp8hh0EPKFPBMFLCZyQBAFBLAQIUABQAAAAIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABDb250cm9sIFBhbmVsLmxua1BLBQYAAAAAAQABAD8A
AAAAAQAAAAA=".replace("`n","")

is the code?

oldschool · Feb 21, 2024

You may pin it to Start, then pin to taskbar and/or pin it to right-click on File Explorer. Any of those work for me.

oldschool · Feb 21, 2024

Edited above post.

Mikaelo · Feb 22, 2024

Drugo said:

hi
do you mean

Code:

$x = "UEsDBBQAAAAIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAQ29udHJvbCBQYW5lbC5sbmvzYWBgYBRhYgCBA2CSwa2BmQEiQAAwovEnAzEnA8MCXSBtGBwQ/Kgrwm2Pj4Xz7j/Ck9Vm5J4ThCkURtIEUxyq4TO/cr6l94oLD6/oPrz6GaRYCKaYEU1xtW7v74sTTPz2J+St4ZykvR+kmAmm+Og13laY6SLMYM0LVMsz81Iyi1RjiiuLS1JzjY1ikvPzSoryc/RSK1KJ8eswAKoM5QyZDHkMKUCyCMiLYShmqATiEoZUhlwGYwYjoEgyQz5QRQlQPp8hh0EPKFPBMFLCZyQBAFBLAQIUABQAAAAIAEphSkmJ5YBS0QAAAPcDAAARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABDb250cm9sIFBhbmVsLmxua1BLBQYAAAAAAQABAD8A
AAAAAQAAAAA=".replace("`n","")

is the code?

yes, right

idgat · Feb 22, 2024

To answer your question directly (My god there's some convoluted responses, so far)
- no, you can't add Control Panel to the Start right click menu
but
- yes, you can pin it to the Start menu window
- yes, you can add it to the Task Bar
- yes, you can add it to the Desktop context menu

antspants · Feb 22, 2024

We must be looking at different threads.

garlin · Feb 22, 2024

Drugo said:
system tray , can i have always all the icons automacly , without dragging and dropping ?

After installing all your apps, run this batch file. There is no Windows setting for automatically pinning new notification icons. You can just run the script again.

antspants · Feb 22, 2024

garlin said:
After installing all your apps, run this batch file. There is no Windows setting for automatically pinning new notification icons. You can just run the script again.

Handy, thanks!

oldschool · Feb 22, 2024

idgat said:
no, you can't add Control Panel to the Start right click menu

But you can do this:

Wisewiz · Feb 22, 2024

I don't know why I'd ever need this. I access the CP with a single Start click,

and manage to keep my right-click Start menu (Win-X) neat and limited to the things I actually use:

antspants · Feb 22, 2024

Pretty sure on two of my PC’s I still have Control Panel pinned to my taskbar. I enter it a bit so it made sense. Laptops, been a while since I booted them.