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Hiding Certain Applets from users in Control Panel

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by gh9

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Hello,

We are using Windows XP at our office and I have been wondering if there was a way to hide certain applets from users in the control panel. I have been searching for a couple days and it seems that everything applies to XP Pro using "gpedit." We have that at our HQ, but on our portable laptops that we have been ordering have been the Home edition. I am pretty reg savvy, but don't want to screw anything up by trying to keep someone from trying to edit certain things.

So basically I want to hide the user accounts applet from users. Any links or info of any kind would be a great help!

Thank you very much

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by tg2

google tweakui and follow links to microsoft for tweakui / power tools (though you only need tweakui)

your uninformed users wouldn't know to use it, and you could uninstall it, if they come back, then you know the user knows enough to get into trouble and at that point you really do need to lock down the system and *should* run XP Pro.

and actually I know it would cost more.. but really.. XP Home does *not* belong on the face of this planet. XP Pro is what you should be using specifically FOR those types of features which enable you to singularly or company wide make updates and changes to everyone's GP without skipping a beat .. and you don't have to have an Active Directory to push out updates to a group policy to everyone.

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