UserPreferenceCategory Enum
Definition
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Defines identifiers that represent categories of user preferences.
public enum class UserPreferenceCategorypublic enum UserPreferenceCategorytype UserPreferenceCategory = Public Enum UserPreferenceCategory- Inheritance
Fields
| Name | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 1 | Indicates user preferences associated with accessibility features of the system for users with disabilities. |
| Color | 2 | Indicates user preferences associated with system colors. This category includes such as the default color of windows or menus. |
| Desktop | 3 | Indicates user preferences associated with the system desktop. This category includes the background image or background image layout of the desktop. |
| General | 4 | Indicates user preferences that are not associated with any other category. |
| Icon | 5 | Indicates user preferences for icon settings, including icon height and spacing. |
| Keyboard | 6 | Indicates user preferences for keyboard settings, such as the key down repeat rate and delay. |
| Menu | 7 | Indicates user preferences for menu settings, such as menu delays and text alignment. |
| Mouse | 8 | Indicates user preferences for mouse settings, such as double-click time and mouse sensitivity. |
| Policy | 9 | Indicates user preferences for policy settings, such as user rights and access levels. |
| Power | 10 | Indicates the user preferences for system power settings. This category includes power feature settings, such as the idle time before the system automatically enters low power mode. |
| Screensaver | 11 | Indicates user preferences associated with the screensaver. |
| Window | 12 | Indicates user preferences associated with the dimensions and characteristics of windows on the system. |
| Locale | 13 | Indicates changes in user preferences for regional settings, such as the character encoding and culture strings. |
| VisualStyle | 14 | Indicates user preferences associated with visual styles, such as enabling or disabling visual styles and switching from one visual style to another. |
Remarks
UserPreferenceCategory provides identifiers that can represent a category of user preferences.
Some of the user preferences in these categories can be changed using the Windows Control Panel, the Computer Management console, or programmatically using an appropriate API.
