Removing items on control panel

[Guest]

Is it possible to remove items like "Administrative Tools" or "Printers and
Faxes" on control panel? I have removed some components with *.cpl files like
"Date and Time". But how to remove the others?

 

[Brad Combs]

Hi Papatchel,

Take a look at the registry key HKCU\Control Panel\don't load...

For example, if you place a string value of "desk.cpl" in this key with a
value of "No" the control panel won't load the Display Control Panel. This
allows you to still include the CPL applets (if you need to) but the typical
user won't see them in Control Panel.

Hope that helps,
Brad

 

[Guest]

To hide the other items, go to:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace
and modify keys (add some characters for example)
{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153} : Administrative tools
{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524152}: Fonts
{7A9D77BD-5403-11d2-8785-2E0420524153}: User accounts
{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}: Network connections
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}: Task scheduler
{0DF44EAA-FF21-4412-828E-260A8728E7F1}: Printers and faxes
{6DFD7C5C-2451-11d3-A299-00C04F8EF6AF}: Folder options
etc....