Lock Control Panel for Users? 2

[Present]

Is there a way to do this so that Admin a/c's can use CP but not Users?

At the moment I have to use GPedit to enable/disable access to CP every time I need to make a change!

Thx

Bill.

 

[bcastner]

Perhaps:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/gp07.htm

http://www.mail-archive.com/techtarget@lists.techtarget.com/msg00083.htmlP

 

[Present]

Looks good. Is 2003 Server an add-on for XP or a whole different OS?

Cheers

 

[bcastner]

sigh.
My apologies. This link does not resolve well:

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[linney]

Have a look at the permissions you can apply to C/Windows/System32/Control.exe to block access to users to the Control Panel.

See what is on offer here. Look at the Current Users Key settings.

http://www.winguides.com/registry/category.php/43/

http://www.winguides.com/registry/category.php/4/

 

[Present]

Looks good - will this only apply to the current user?

 

[linney]

Any permissions to Control.exe will be a user group setting.

Any Registry Key restrictions would be set in the currently logged on users registry and would therefore require applying to every user (while you were logged on as them) to end up in the correct location so that they applied to that user only. If you were to set it in the HK Local Machine Key it would catch the Administrator too as well as all users.

 

[linney]

If you were to just restrict access via Control.exe it might not work if users have other access to Control Panel such as via My Computer folder or the Start Menu. You would have to block access on all the .CPL files in Control Panel (found in System32).

In other words the Registry options seem more practicable.