August 14, 2007

Control Panel - Disable/Enable(Win XP)

Suppose you work at a place where you share your computer with other people. They always do something and disturb your system's settings from Control Panel. You really want to stop them to use Control Panel so they wont able to change any settings. Well, you can do it easily with following trick.

Control Panel Disable:
Type following text in notepad or copy-paste it and run/merge it. It will Disable Control Panel.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoControlPanel"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoControlPanel"=dword:00000001


Control Panel Enable:
Type following text in notepad or copy-paste it and run/merge it. It will Enable Control Panel.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoControlPanel"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoControlPanel"=dword:00000000

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Useful tricks.. cool