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| Hide Control Panel applets to keep users out of hot water |
| Windows 2000 prevents users who aren't members of the Administrator or Power User groups from |
| taking certain actions to reconfigure the system. In many situations, that protection is enough to |
| keep users from accidentally harming their systems. In others, however, you might want to remove |
| some Control Panel applets to keep users from accessing them. |
| You can use Group Policy to control which applets appear in the Control Panel, and apply the |
| policy locally or at the site, domain, or Organizational Unit (OU) levels. |
| To hide individual applets, go to the Policy Editor and open the User Configuration/Administrative |
| Templates/Control Panel branch. Double-click Hide Specific Control Panel Applets to open the |
| Policy dialog box, click Enable, and click Show. Click Add and type the name of the applet's file, |
| such as timedate.cpl for the Date/Time applet. Add the names of the other applets you want to hide |
| Most Control Panel applets reside in %systemroot%\System32, but there might be others installed |
| elsewhere by third-party applications; to find these, you can do a system search for .cpl files. If |
| you're not sure what a certain .cpl file does, open a command console and type control <file.cpl>, |
| where <file.cpl> is the file in question. This opens the applet. |
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