[1809, ou] Stop the amd catalyst control center from working

[chazzy2501]

yes, the amd catalyst control center works for standard users! (pupil in my case) Great not only that they can set all kinds of custom refresh rates and resolutions but this has actually killed a Dell Monitor today! I have another that wont work on DVI anymore, I've uninstalled the graphics, factory reset the monitor but it is F'd… Lucky VGA still works.

 

 

This is a new batch of PCs (to the Windows 10 image) that have the 6550d graphics from an AMD A8 APU. Windows just grabbed new drivers with all the trimmings. What amazing is that it allows standard users to fiddle with system settings. I now have a number of PCs with portrait displays in 400x240 res! with crazy colours and some are out of range.

 

Anyhow how do I stop the control center from loading? (the old control center)

[3s-gtech]

Delete the registry entry which starts it, that's what I did (using GPP to push out the change). You can also modify the context menus to delete the options that get installed in there.

Delete all of these (you can script it too if you prefer).

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\StartCCC (stop CCC running on startup)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\StartCCC (may be in here too)

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\ACE (context menu)