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Old April 22nd 13, 10:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
David
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Tim:

I just checked and discovered to my dismay that gpedit.msc is not on
my computers in my day care center. I had thought (after being told
by the salesman) that the computers had XP PRO. It appears that they
do not. I suspect that what they really have is XP HOME.

I looked at my office pc which does have XP Pro. I found gpedit.msc &
gpedit.dll in windows\system32 and two gpedit help files in
windows\help. Is there any chance I could copy these 4 files to the
same directories on the XP Home computers and have things work as they
should? All the pcs, home & pro, have been updated with SP3.



On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:56:37 +0100, "Tim Meddick"
wrote:

Use the Group Policy Editor (under XP Start Menu's "Administrative Tools" )
to limit user-level access to many Windows components, including access to
the Control Panel itself...

If you can't find the Group Policy Editor on the Start Menu, type
"gpedit.msc" into the "Run" box.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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In message ,
lid writes:
I have a dozen Windows XP/Pro computers that I provide for school
agers (grades 1 through 5) use in a day care center I own. The kids
are amazingly intelligent when it comes to figuring out how to change
the XP settings I have decided on.

I am using TweakUI to eliminate most of the icons in the control
panel, but not all. TweakUI apparently can not get rid of them all.

Is there any way to prevent someone with only USER privileges from
accessing the Control Panel? Or alternatively, can I prevent someone
from seeing the icons in the Control Panel that TweakUI can not get
rid of?


Would moving all .cpl files to somewhere only accessible to you work? Or
renaming them? (Both done with a batch file - maybe one of those "for xx
in yy" type lines?)

I've crossposted this to another newsgroup - the "customise" one is
pretty quiet!
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