gHacks technology news » visual controls http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:33:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Manage Additional Control Panel Extensions http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/17/manage-additional-control-panel-extensions/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/17/manage-additional-control-panel-extensions/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 19:47:43 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4169 Several applications and drivers add new extensions to the Windows Control Panel which sooner or later fills itself with official and third-party extensions. Hardware entries like the Creative Audio Console or the NVIDIA Control Panel Applet and software extensions like Adobe Gamma, Java or Quicktime add an icon to the Control Panel without asking the user or offering additional features that make it necessary that they are placed in the Control Panel.

Visual Controls is a tiny application with a size of 82 Kilobyte that lists all third party Control Panel extensions giving the user the option to manage these extensions. They can be enabled or disabled by checking or unchecking the related entry. Changes are applied instantly and the icons will no longer be available once the Control Panel is refreshed or restarted.

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Visual Controls requires the .net Framework 2.0 or higher. A download link is available on the developers homepage.

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