How to hide Control Panel, or tools in Control Panel

[Tony]

Hi,

My home Windows XP (Professional edition) computer has several accounts I
set up for each individual family member. Is there a way that I can
customize to hide Control Panel (or tools in Control Panel) in my children
accounts? I need to prevent them to get to Control Panel to change my
settings.

Thanks in advance.

Tony

 

[kurttrail]

Hi,

My home Windows XP (Professional edition) computer has several
accounts I set up for each individual family member. Is there a way
that I can customize to hide Control Panel (or tools in Control
Panel) in my children accounts? I need to prevent them to get to
Control Panel to change my settings.

Thanks in advance.

Tony

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[Malke]

Hi,

My home Windows XP (Professional edition) computer has several
accounts I set up for each individual family member. Is there a way
that I can customize to hide Control Panel (or tools in Control Panel)
in my children accounts? I need to prevent them to get to Control
Panel to change my settings.

Certainly. Since you have XP Pro, you can apply many fine-grained
permissions and restrictions using Group Policy. To start the Group
Policy Editor, do Start>Run>gpedit.msc [enter]

Be careful with the Group Policy Editor. It is a very powerful tool and
you can lock yourself out if you aren't careful. For questions
regarding Group Policy, post here:
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy

Malke

 

[Tony]

Malke,

Thanks for help. I'll do more studies from gpedit.msc.

Tony

Hi,

My home Windows XP (Professional edition) computer has several
accounts I set up for each individual family member. Is there a way
that I can customize to hide Control Panel (or tools in Control Panel)
in my children accounts? I need to prevent them to get to Control
Panel to change my settings.

Certainly. Since you have XP Pro, you can apply many fine-grained
permissions and restrictions using Group Policy. To start the Group
Policy Editor, do Start>Run>gpedit.msc [enter]

Be careful with the Group Policy Editor. It is a very powerful tool and
you can lock yourself out if you aren't careful. For questions
regarding Group Policy, post here:
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy

Malke
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