Controlling the SAPGUI New Visual Design

SAPGUI 4.6x introduced the "new visual design" or "enjoySAP" look and feel.

As you know, users can switch back and forth the new visual design or the "light" look and feel. They simply use the "SAP Configuration" applet in Control Panel. However, you the administrator might need to control what they set up on their PCs in order to have a uniform platform.

The Windows registry controls this setting:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\SAP\General\Enjoy\Active

By the default, it is set to "On". When the user changes it to the light version using the SAP Configuration icon that is on the desktop or Control Panel, then the registry value changes to "Off".

You can hide the SAP Configuration applet. You can even do this when setting up SAPGUI. You can edit the file SAPSETUP.NID and comment out these two lines:

!InstallFileList('%WINSYSDIR%')
%SAPsourceDir%\sapgui\sapfcpl.cpl
EndProc/U/TS

In SAPGUI 4.6D the line above is number 1,459.

!CreateIconOrLink('SAP Configuration','%WINSYSDIR%\sapfcpl.cpl
','%SAPworkDir%','sapfcpl.cpl,0','Desktop\',' ',cgAsCommon)/TS

In SAPGUI 4.6D the line above is number 1,645.