The Control Panel allows for users to view and adjust some of the basic system settings within Windows. Have you been in there lately? The Control Panel tends to collect random add-ons or extensions by software or hardware driver vendors. Starting in Windows 95 the control panel options and icons were grouped together based on categories – seasoned veterans probably quickly disabled this default view and went back to the classic icon view.

Back when there were only 20 or so icons the classic view was still navigable and workable. Today, however, a Windows 7 control panel can include over 50 icons! Using this view with the classic icons isn’t nearly as simple – with power comes complexity perhaps. Your options are twofold: conform and stay with the category view that’s been the default for the last three iterations or try to pair down the number of icons by removing those that are of limited or no value.

Choosing the latter option the Intel GMA Driver for Mobile is quite a likely candidate for removal.

For many icons the process is pretty simple – population of the Control Panel is controlled by .cpl files normally located in the C:\Windows\System32 folder. Running a search within this folder will return a whole whack of results. You will need to use your intuition, for the most part, about which .cpl file corresponds to the actual Control Panel module.

In the returned results I can see that igfxcpl.cpl corresponds to the Intel Graphics(x). Removing this file from the system32 folder will remove the module from the Control Panel. Relaunch Control Panel to notice the change.

Unfortunately, this process may involve a bit of trial and error but reverting the change is as simple as moving the file back into the system32 folder.