How to Disable Control Panel in Windows 10

If your system is shared by more than one user, like your friends, family or by any other network, and you don’t want them to change or mess up with your system settings, then in this type of situation you can restrict their access to use your Control Panel and PC Settings.

By disabling it, all the users are prohibited to use the control panel and restricted to perform any changes in your computer. Just go through this article, to find out how to disable Control Panel in Windows 10 by following the steps as explained below.

Steps to Disable Control Panel in Windows 10

Step 1: Go to the Search bar and type “gpedit.msc”. You”ll see “gpedit.msc” program, click to open it.

Step 2: Then you will be navigated to “Local Policy Editor”.  From there go to the “Administrative Templates” which is under the “User Configuration”.

Step 3: In order to open a control panel settings, click on “Control Panel” which is on the right side as marked in the image below.

Step 4: Then list of various options is displayed, from that just click on “Prohibit access to the Control Panel and PC settings”.

Step 5: Click on “Enabled” radio button to disable the control panel.

Don’t get confused, here you are enabling to prohibit the access to the Control Panel and the PC settings.

      NOTE:

• You must be signed in as an administrator in order to perform this task.
• These steps can be followed in all the versions of Windows Operating system.

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