Group Policy "Hide specified Control Panel applets" not working for "Network Connections"

[Arie Slob]

Hi,

Does anybody know why you can't specify "Ncpa.cpl" and have the "Network
Connections" control panel applet hidden by using the policy editor?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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"Arie Slob"wrote:

| Hi,
|
| Does anybody know why you can't specify "Ncpa.cpl" and have the "Network
| Connections" control panel applet hidden by using the policy editor?
|
| --
| Regards,
|
| Arie Slob.

 

[Arie Slob]

Thanks Carey,

I had checked newsgroups containing .windowsxp. so didn't notice there was a
specific group for GP.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Arie,

The Network connections folder is actually a Shell folder (though the CPL
applet is there to launch it quickly), and one way to hide the Network
Connections applet is to add the GUID {7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}
to NonEnum.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...s/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/85853.asp

 

[Arie Slob]

Thanks Ramesh, that works.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome Arie.