Restore Network Connections icon to the Control Panel in Windows Vista
July 18th, 2008 • Filed Under • by Ramesh Srinivasan
Network Connections icon is hidden by default from the Control Panel in Windows Vista. Here is a registry edit to unhide the Network Connections icon.
Add Network Connections icon to the Control Panel
1. Click Start, type regedit.exe and press ENTER
2. Navigate to the following branch:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Control Panel \ don’t load
3. In the right pane, right-click ncpa.cpl and choose Delete
4. Exit the Registry Editor.
Registry Fix
To automate the above, download ncpa-cpl-unhide.reg and save to Desktop. Double-click the file to run it. To reverse the changes, run ncpa-cpl-hide.reg.
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Comment by Michael on 19 July 2008:
Thanks, very useful. :)
But what if I want to reverse it?
Comment by Ramesh Srinivasan on 19 July 2008:
I’ve added an Undo REG file, Mike.