Add Control Panel (or Any Program) to the Context Menu Using a Registry Tweak

The Windows Control Panel is one of the most useful tools on your desktop. To make it even easier, you can add it to the context menu from anywhere with a simple tweak in the registry.

As the How-To Geek site explains, you can add any program to the context menu with a very simple registry addition. While this process will work for anything, we’ll walk through the steps to add a shortcut to Control Panel:

1. Open the Start menu and type “Regedit” to launch the Registry Editor. Click Yes to give him permission to edit your system.
2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell
3. Right-click the “wrapper” and choose New> Key. Name it Control Panel (or the name of the app you want to add).
4. Right-click the new Control Panel folder and choose New> Key. Name this one “command”.
5. Click “command” in the left pane.
6. Double-click “Default” in the right pane.
7. Enter the following in the field labeled “Data Value”: rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL

You should now have a link to the control panel in the context menu. This will appear when you right-click on the desktop or in File Explorer, although this may not work in all programs. If you want to adapt this to add other shortcuts, just change the name in step 3 and paste the path to the program you want to add in step 7. If you don’t want to manually edit the registry, How-To Geek contains some easy ways to hack the registry that you can run to automatically add or remove Control Panel to the context menu from the below source link.

How to add a control panel to the Windows context menu | How-To Geek

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