If you are using Windows XP Professional then easiest way could be: (FOR ALL
USERS)
1. Click Start - Run - type GPEDIT.MSC
2. Expand to:
User Configuration
Administrative Templates
Control Panel
3. In the right-side pane double-click the "Prohibit Access to the Control
Panel" entry.
4. If it is set to "Not configured" or "Disabled" then set the value to
"Enable"
For both Windows XP Professional and Home Edition
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1. Click Start - Run - type REGEDIT and press enter
2. Here expand to:
3. In the right-side pane check for the DWORD value entry "NoControlPanel".
If it is not there then right-click and create a new DWORD value. Name it
"NoControlPanel" and set the value to 1.
i have configured it as you told me.
but, the configuration take affect in both limited account and my
administrator account.
Is there any way to prohibit control panel only in the limited account??
You have to work hard to find the individual settings to hide control panel
in Registry. The key is inside the HKEY_USER. When you will expand it, you
will see the folder like:
S-1-5-18
S-1-5-19
These folder stores some settings of every individual user. So you have to
know the number of user which windows automatically generated. To do this,
login to administrator account and open the registry editor. expand to
HKEY_USERS (only).
Now, without loging off - switch to another users account and then without
loging off that account switch back to administrator. press f5 and you will
notice that some new folder has been created under HKEY_USERS. These folders
are individual settings folder of that user. Expand to e.g.
S-1-5-21-84397444-3843849-234884-1004
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