If you have Windows 7, 8, or 10 Home, you will have to edit the Windows Registry to make these changes. You can also do it this way if you have Windows Pro or Enterprise, but just feel more comfortable working in the Registry. If you have Pro or Enterprise, though, we recommend using the easier Local Group Policy Editor, as described in the next section.
Standard warning: Registry Editor is a powerful tool and misusing it can render your system unstable or even inoperable. And definitely back up the Registry and your computer! From this point, you can go one of two ways. You can either hide specific items from the Control Panel by creating a disallow list, or hide all items except the ones you specify by creating a restricted list. Technically, you could create both a disallow and a restricted list, but that gets complicated fast.
The disallow list would always take precedence and the two lists would always be competing. So, we recommend choosing just one. Which method you choose is up to you, and should really just be based on how many items you want to hide from the Control Panel. Double-click the new value you created to open its properties window. Name the new string value with the full name of the Control Panel item. You can test your changes by opening up the Control Panel window—no need to restart Windows or anything.
In our example below, the Sync Center item is now hidden. If at any time you want to remove an item from the list, all you have to do is go back into Registry Editor and delete the value you created for that item. This disables the feature, but leaves the list you created intact in case you want to turn the feature back on again. It also gives you a bit more power over which users have this restriction. You can read all about that in our guide to applying local Group Policy tweaks to specific users.
Start by finding the MSC file you created for controlling policies for those particular users. Double-click to open it and allow it to make changes to your PC.
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All's working very well, I'm pleased and surprised! It doesn't actually work - the 'restricted' message appears if they double click it - but it would be good to remove the icon somehow to avoid temptation. There must be a way to do this through Group Policies, but I can't seem to find it.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Also, is there any way of disabling libraries completely? At least whilst we have mixed XP and 7 clients, it would seem to make sense to stick to the known and understood 'My Documents' only.
Originally Posted by sdc. Thanks to EJWill from: sdc 26th April Thanks for that - we'll give it a try!
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