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by phil1347

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I have Windows 2000 Workstations with NT 4.0 Servers. I want tpo hide the administrative tools in control panel, but cannot find where to do it. Can anyone tell me how to create a custom adm to fix this.

Phil

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by erikdr

Probably not possible in a server-based way with out of the box MS stuff. The whole POLEDIT / .ADM stuff of NTW has been replaced by Group Policy and this is of course not available when you run W2K Pro in a NT4 domain. I have seen posts popping around describing some kind of 'local policy' for W2K Pro, but that would give you quite a burden in keeping all these policy files synced. Maybe someone else can shed light on this bypass...

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by clasky

This is totally shooting from the hip, but, it may serve the purpose. Remove local administrative privileges from the user(s) in question. The appletts will still be viewable but unusable.

by chris

you'd have to go to each wksta but try this:

Remove the Read permission from %SystemRoot%\System32\Sysdm.cpl for the Group(s) / User(s) that you want.

Get a list of Control Panel Applets by typing:

dir %SystemRoot%\System32\*.cpl /b

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