Disable Network Control Panel

Remove or disable your network card

I'm sure there is a registry tweak that can do what you want to do, but I'm not sure exactly where it would be.

You can check out powertoys
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

We use this at our school to remove control panel applets.

Good luck

Assuming you don't have some wise users on the network, you can use group policy settings which are local to each PC, so to make things easy you might want to write a script and just run it on each PC(I cant help with that). Otherwise, open start->Run then type gpedit.msc and select OK. In the group policy settings window, under User Configuration, navigate to Administrative templates->Network->Network Connections.In the details pane, double click the 'Prohibit access to the properties of the LAN connection. Select "enabled". Save and close settings. You can read through most of the options there and restrict or allow as required. After that you can then prohibit editing of grouop policy to cater for the 'wise users'. Hope this helps.

Group policies is the easiest way to go but can become tedious if you have to do many PCs. If you are on a Netware network by chance you can use ZenWorks if its available to push the group policies centrally. Im sure windows networks has something similar with active directory but im out of practice with that.

If you have a corporate version of Ghost(i.e we use 7.5)` it has a program called ghost packager, i think thats the name, and there is an AI builder to go with it. This will do a prescan and then you would make the changes and then it will do a final scan to find any changes. You then could look at the file it makes(a .cfg file read by the AI builder). You could read it for the changes and make a .reg file based on that or use the .exe that it would make and put them in a login script.

Im sure there are other Programs out there but im unaware of them.

If I can find the actual reg entries i'll post back.

hth,

Jason

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If you are comfortable with registry editing,
you could try:

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load

Add a new string value(REG_SZ) called ncpa.cpl with value of 'No'

Another way would be using Group Policy to restrict this applet.