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Prevent access to user identification details on network (For All Users).

With this setting you can prevent access to user identification details on network using “Network” system icon in Control Panel.

Tweak for : Windows 98, Windows Me

Description:

Control Panel is a repository of various applets/administrative tools that can be used to configure the Windows, applications, and services environment. If you go to Start > Settings menu and select “Control Panel”, Windows will open the Control Panel window. This setting can prevent access to user identification details on network using “Network” system icon in the current applets list displayed in the Control Panel. It hides the “Identification” tab from the “Network” dialog box.

Windows uses information in “Identification” tab to identify your computer on network. It uses information like Computer name and Workgroup to recognize your computer.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkey “\Network” does not exist, create it as explained below. Then, create a DWORD value “NoNetSetupIDPage” at both the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry paths.

Now, right-click and modify their values to “1” which can prevent access to user identification details on network. However, if you want to enable the icon back, change the value data to “0” or delete the added values.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

Network

Data Type :

Key

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Registry Entry 2 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

NoNetSetupIDPage

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Registry Entry 3 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

Network

Data Type :

Key

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Registry Entry 4 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

NoNetSetupIDPage

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

'Identification' tab is hidden from 'Network' dialog box.

'Identification' tab is visible by default in the 'Network' dialog box.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\] and create a new key as "Network".

Create a new 'DWORD value' as "NoSetupSecurityPage".

Right-click on "NoSetupSecuritymPage" and select 'Modify'.

Finally, set the value data as "1" and click 'OK'. Once you are done, follow the above steps to make similar changes on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry path.