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April 16th 13, 08:43 PM
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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? 
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April 17th 13, 09:05 PM
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April 22nd 13, 10:03 PM
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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 ... 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! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "He hasn't one redeeming vice." - Oscar Wilde
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#5
April 23rd 13, 10:01 AM
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Unfortunately - not!
You can copy the file: gpedit.msc - that is not the problem - but when you try to start it on a XP Home PC, it will say that you nee to import the correct 'snap-in' for the console to function correctly - importing the appropriate Group Policy snap-in, will NOT be possible under Windows XP Home edition!... == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) David wrote in message ... 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 ... 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! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "He hasn't one redeeming vice." - Oscar Wilde
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#6
April 22nd 13, 08:45 AM
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I tried this for one control panel icon (Display). Believe it or not,
the system recreated the .cpl file. The other problem is that there are at least six control panel icons for which I could not find a .cpl file. The .cpl files I found were in \windows\system32 I have a rather old newsgroup reader. Can you tell me which newsgroups you cross posted to? Thanks! On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:05:21 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , 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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#7
April 23rd 13, 06:49 AM
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#8
July 18th 20, 10:31 AM
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On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 1:43:34 PM UTC-6, David wrote:
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? kharma plays a game too, but not of ur kinds
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