Adding your program to the Control Panel

Author: ZmAn3 (talk, contrib)

Description

These macros below add or remove items from the Control Panel. You have to refresh the Control Panel, if in use, in order to work. Tested only on Windows XP SP2.

The Macros

!define WControlPanelItem_Add `!insertmacro WControlPanelItem_Add`
!macro WControlPanelItem_Add `GUID` `Name` `Tip` `Exec` `Icon`
  WriteRegStr HKCR `CLSID\${GUID}` `` `${Name}`
  WriteRegStr HKCR `CLSID\${GUID}` `InfoTip` `${Tip}`
  WriteRegStr HKCR `CLSID\${GUID}\DefaultIcon` `` `${Icon}`
  WriteRegStr HKCR `CLSID\${GUID}\Shell\Open\Command` `` `${Exec}`
  WriteRegDWORD HKCR `CLSID\${GUID}\ShellFolder` `Attributes` `0`
  WriteRegStr HKLM `SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\${GUID}` `` `${Name}`
!macroend
 
!define WControlPanelItem_Remove `!insertmacro WControlPanelItem_Remove`
!macro WControlPanelItem_Remove `GUID`
  DeleteRegKey HKCR "CLSID\${GUID}"
  DeleteRegKey HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\${GUID}"
!macroend

Written by ZmAn3.
Modified by deguix.