Administrative Tools Applet in Control Panel

[Jay]

Hey there,
Does anyone know the registry value and key location to change to
hide the "Administrative Tools" folder that is in the Control Panel?
I've looked around here, and the only answers I find are for the
Administrative Tools that appear in the Start Menu, which isn't exactly
what I'm looking for.

Thanks!
Jay
(patelj27b at gmail dot com)

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [Jay]s message :

Hey there,
Does anyone know the registry value and key location to change to
hide the "Administrative Tools" folder that is in the Control Panel?
I've looked around here, and the only answers I find are for the
Administrative Tools that appear in the Start Menu, which isn't exactly
what I'm looking for.

Thanks!
Jay
(patelj27b at gmail dot com)

No need to change registry, just move/delete the shortcuts from :
All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools

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[Jay]

Ayush,
Thank you for the reply, but I am going to be doing this
programatically so I need to do this through the registry. Just
changing a shortcut isn't going to work, and anyway, my pc doesn't have
those shortcuts and the Control Panel still has the Administrative
Tools icon. Anyone out there with any suggestions?

-Jay
(patelj27b at gmail dot com)

Replied to [Jay]s message :

Hey there,
Does anyone know the registry value and key location to change to
hide the "Administrative Tools" folder that is in the Control Panel?
I've looked around here, and the only answers I find are for the
Administrative Tools that appear in the Start Menu, which isn't exactly
what I'm looking for.

Thanks!
Jay
(patelj27b at gmail dot com)

No need to change registry, just move/delete the shortcuts from :
All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools

→ Ayush [ Good Luck ]
- - - - - - - -
Search - www.Google.com | Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
Snip your long urls - http://snipurl.com/
- - - - - - - -

 

[Robert Gault]

Ayush,
Thank you for the reply, but I am going to be doing this
programatically so I need to do this through the registry. Just
changing a shortcut isn't going to work, and anyway, my pc doesn't have
those shortcuts and the Control Panel still has the Administrative
Tools icon. Anyone out there with any suggestions?

-Jay
(patelj27b at gmail dot com)

Replied to [Jay]s message :

Hey there,
Does anyone know the registry value and key location to change to
hide the "Administrative Tools" folder that is in the Control Panel?
I've looked around here, and the only answers I find are for the
Administrative Tools that appear in the Start Menu, which isn't exactly
what I'm looking for.

Thanks!
Jay
(patelj27b at gmail dot com)

No need to change registry, just move/delete the shortcuts from :
All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools

→ Ayush [ Good Luck ]
- - - - - - - -
Search - www.Google.com | Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
Snip your long urls - http://snipurl.com/
- - - - - - - -

Did you try searching with regedit for Administrative? I just did and
quickly found
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153}
There probably are other entries but you can do the looking.

 

[NewScience]

Try adding the CLSID key {D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153} to the
following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum

Add:

{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153} REG_DWORD 1

in rught panel for the key.

To Hide it for everyone: change HKEY_CURRENT_USER to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
That will hide even for Administrator accounts.

Keep in mind, the user can still drop-down to CMD Prompt and execute any of
the *.msc files (unless you Restrict the Run command as well, and turn off
the CMD feature as well.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System

Add:

DisableCMD REG_DWORD 1
NoRun REG_DWORD 1

You can even turn off access to the Control Panel:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Add:

NoControlPanel REG_DWORD 1

Ayush,
Thank you for the reply, but I am going to be doing this
programatically so I need to do this through the registry. Just
changing a shortcut isn't going to work, and anyway, my pc doesn't have
those shortcuts and the Control Panel still has the Administrative
Tools icon. Anyone out there with any suggestions?

-Jay
(patelj27b at gmail dot com)

Replied to [Jay]s message :

Hey there,
Does anyone know the registry value and key location to change to
hide the "Administrative Tools" folder that is in the Control Panel?
I've looked around here, and the only answers I find are for the
Administrative Tools that appear in the Start Menu, which isn't exactly
what I'm looking for.

Thanks!
Jay
(patelj27b at gmail dot com)



No need to change registry, just move/delete the shortcuts from :
All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools

? Ayush [ Good Luck ]
- - - - - - - -
Search - www.Google.com | Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
Snip your long urls - http://snipurl.com/
- - - - - - - -

Did you try searching with regedit for Administrative? I just did and
quickly found
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153}
There probably are other entries but you can do the looking.