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How To Disable Control Panel

Published by SuperCheats Staff on Sep 1st 2013
What to do
If you have a shared computer that your family and friends can access, you might not want them to mess around in the Control Panel. This is how you can disable it.

Note:For some reason if you have a shared computer that anyone can access, this can avoid changing of various settings of your computer system.

What to do



  1. Press the Windows + R key combination to open run box and type gpedit.msc and hit enter key.

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  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Explorer then right-click in the right pane and create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value.

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  3. Name the value Disable Control Panel. Then right-click on the new Value and click Modify.

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  4. Change the value to 1 then click OK. Close out of Registry Editor and restart the machine to complete the process.

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    If a user tries to access it they will get the following message indicating it is restricted
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