Registry Tweak – Enabling/Disabling the Folder Options

By Luqmaan

Here is a registry tweak which you could use to disable your folder options. First of all read this post on how to backup the registry, it is always important to backup the registry before modifying it just in case.

I will describe how to perform this tweak in a few steps.

1.Open the registry – Open Start > Run > Type ‘regedit’.

2.Locate the location in the registry to place the data – In the left Tree-view windows navigate to“HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer” if any of the keys (directories) are missing create it. If they are all there skip to step 4

3. Create a key – if for example “Policies” is missing, right click “current version” and select new key.

4. Right-click “Explorer” and select new DWORD value.

5. Rename the value to “nofolderoptions”.

6. Double click the value and type 1 for the value data.

7. Close the registry, now test it.(you might have to restart the computer first)

8. Open My Computer > Tools > and check if you find ‘Folder options’ at the end of the pull down menu, if it cannot be found the tweak has been successful.

9. To enable the control panel again, open the registry and delete the value or replace the value data with “0”.

This tweak is particularly useful if you wish to limit any other users altering your computer’s settings, also some viruses disable this feature just to cause some trouble to the host computer, using the above steps you can enable your folder options again.

Alternatively you can use Disk Heal and perform this same tweak by just ticking off a single check box.

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4 Comments so far

Melvin February 3, 2009 6:12 pm

Thanks for the info..i have an idea to start tweaking my windows now, its so messy on the registry.

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Jim Brownly August 2, 2010 12:19 am

Thank you for information. I will check this out as soon as there will be a chance.

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alexwfix August 18, 2010 3:53 pm

It is great information; I hope it would be very useful for my computer and clean up the registry errors completely.

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