Show Control Panel in Start Menu using Registry

If you are using roaming profiles, or even better mandatory profiles, you can set the Control Panel to appear or not appear in the Start menu for all users by editing the following registry key in the NTUser hive:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Start_ShowControlPanel

1 = Show Link
0 = Hide

We use Appsense to set this key on logon for specific users on specific servers.