Re: Hiding Control Panel For All?

In 1137435262.565798.244510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dave
wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to hide the control panel on several local stand
> alone XP Pro PC's in the office. All the user accounts are
> set up as Power Users. After a lot of reading, it looks
> like the best way to do this is to use group policies. I
> set this up on my test system and it works fine. My
> question is: this change affected all the groups, including
> Administrators. Does this mean every time I log in as
> Administrator I have to un-hide the control panel to make
> changes or can I limit hiding the control panel to every one
> but the Administrator? Is there a better way??
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Dave

You might want to take a look at these articles:

Lockdown by group using Local Computer Policy without Active
Directory
http://tinyurl.com/687jj

Local Computer Policy in a Workgroup
http://www.theeldergeek.com/gp07.htm

How to apply local policies to all users except administrators
in a workgroup setting in Windows 2000 (Applies to XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B293655

Windows XP Security Console
Courtesy of Doug Knox MS-MVP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm

Just a suggestion, if you use the procedure that denies the
read permission to the Administrator, place a shortcut on the
Administrator's desktop to the C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy
folder. You might also want to create a shortcut directly to
gpedit.msc.

Good luck

Nepatsfan


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