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hiding control panel through group policy

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by anthonyedgar

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Help can any one tell me how to hid control panel through group policy as my nephew got a laptop for christmas and has managed to find his way in there and changed the computer settings. I have some experiance at setting policys but not a lot his operating system is windows vista premium any help would be great chers in advance.

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by seanferd

if you can edit the registry (back it up first), you can do this: While logged into your nephew's account, enter the registry and navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\

look for an entry named NoControlPanel.
If it isn't there, you can create it
( New > DWORD)
and set the value to 1.

Do this only for your nephew's account.

by anthonyedgar

Thank seanferd your solution worked thanks for your assistance.

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