Tweak Library – Prohibit access to “Control Panel”

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Prohibit access to “Control Panel” (All Users).

This setting disables the display of “Control Panel” inside the Start menu and Windows Explorer as well as turns off its functionality.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista

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 hide the “Control Panel” item in the Start menu and Windows Explorer as well as turns off executing Control Panel from Run menu.

For this, go to Start > Run, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a DWORD value “NoControlPanel”, if this value does not exist.

Now, right-click and modify the value to “1” which can turn off Control Panel’s functioning. However, if you want to make Control Panel function, change the value data to “0” or delete the value.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

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Hide Control Panel from Start Menu.reg

The '.reg' file can disable "Control Panel".

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Show Control Panel in Start Menu (Default).reg

The '.reg' file can enable "Control Panel".

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

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

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

NoControlPanel

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.

'Control Panel' is disabled from the Start menu.

'Control Panel' is visible by default in the Start menu.

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

Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer\] , right-click in the open area to create a DWORD Value with the name "NoControlPanel" in "Explorer" key.

Next, right-click on "NoControlPanel" and click on 'Modify'.

Finally, enter the value "1" in the text box and click on 'OK'.