User Accounts

[SuperColey1]

I am trying to restrict access on my computer to the control panel and all other systems settings like screen savers and wallpaper etc. namely the power management settings.

I have XP SP2

I have setup an admin account andan limited account. The limited account still lets that account change the power management settings.

How can I block access to the control panel? so that only the administrator account can access it?

Andy

 

[screamingdonkey]

I am trying to restrict access on my computer to the control panel and all other systems settings like screen savers and wallpaper etc. namely the power management settings.

I have XP SP2

I have setup an admin account andan limited account. The limited account still lets that account change the power management settings.

How can I block access to the control panel? so that only the administrator account can access it?

Andy

Hi, I have to do this at work to stop users from accessing certain features.
The way I do it is by editing the Policies key for Explorer in the registry.

Click Start, Run and type regedit and press return

Navigate to HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Click once on Explorer

Click Edit

Click New, DWORD

Name this key NoControlPanel (NB: this is case and space sensitive)

Right-click this key, choose Modify, change it from 0 to 1 (i.e. from False to True)

Exit the registry editor and now restart the PC

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If you need to change the policy i.e. allow access to the control panel - just navigate back to the NoControlPanel key and change the DWORD value back to 0

PS: I think there's another way to do it by assigning Mandatory User Profiles - you can find out how to do this by going onto the Microsoft support pages and searching for Mandatory User Profiles in XP

Hope this helps,

Justin

 

[andrew84uk]

You can't do this without creating a domain to centrally manage users. This is because the local security poilicy mentioned above disables the features for ALL users.

The best way to restrict a user from installing drivers/changing power features e.t.c is to make them a standard user.

Do to this visit the control panel, click on user accounts > click the account you want to restrict and change the users setting to non administrator. (Windows XP Home)

Hope this helps alittle bit.