How to prevent accessing control panel in the system

Asked By josep craig 0 points N/A Posted on - 12/17/2012

Hi experts,

I want to prevent accessing control panel in my system. I am using Windows 7 OS. Can anybody suggest me ?

 

 

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Answered By warren todd 0 points N/A #169318

How to prevent accessing control panel in the system

Hi Mr. Josep,

You can prevent accessing control panel in your system. Please follow the below steps,

1. Go to the start menu.

2. Press Windows Key and the letter R simultaneously.

3. Type in the search bar gpedit.msc and hit enter.

4. Expand Administrative templates.

5. Double click on All settings.

6. In the right hand side column search for 'Prohibit access to the control panel' and double click on it.

7. Enable it.

8. Apply and OK.

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Answered By Burton Studebaker 0 points N/A #169319

How to prevent accessing control panel in the system

 

Good day Josep!

 

Good news! You no longer need to download any software security programs to restrict access to the control panel. The group policy editor made an  easy way to change a number of registry entries. 

 

There are the steps to restrict the Control Panel on your computer.

 

Open Registry Editor by going into the START Menu and click on RUN

Type the command REGEDIT

Simply navigate to these folders respectively:

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Software

MicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPolicies

Explorer

 

Then right-click on the right pane. You now need to create a new DWORD Value. Make sure to name the value to NoControlPanel.

Right-click on it and click MODIFY.

Simply change the value for 'NoControlPanel' to 1 and close out Registry Editor. Reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.

 

 

You will not notice that there is no Control Panel in the Start Menu list.

 

 

If someone will attempt to access it, this will be the error message that will pop-up.

 

 

If you would like to enable it again, follow the steps in Registry editor and change the value for NoControlPanel to '0' and reboot the computer.

 

Good luck!

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