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Disable Control Panel with Folder Guard
Folder Guard® lets you restrict access to the commands of Windows Control Panel and prevent their use by the unauthorized users of your computer. You can restrict all commands of Control Panel, or only some of them. You can also set up different restrictions for different users: for example, you can configure Folder Guard to allow full access to the Control Panel commands for yourself, but restrict such access for other users.
To restrict access to a particular command of Control Panel, you need to assign the no access attribute to the appropriate CPL file, located in the system folder of Windows. The following table lists some common CPL files and the Control Panel commands they are responsible for:
| CPL File | Control Panel icons |
| ACCESS.CPL | Accessibility Options |
| APPWIZ.CPL | Add/Remove Programs |
| DESK.CPL | Display |
| HDWWIZ.CPL | Add/Remove Hardware |
| INETCPL.CPL | Internet settings, user accounts on Windows 95,98,Me |
| INFRARED.CPL | Infrared |
| INTL.CPL | Regional settings |
| JOY.CPL | Game Controllers |
| MAIN.CPL | Fonts, Keyboard, Mouse, PC Card (PCMCIA), Printers |
| MMSYS.CPL | Sounds |
| MODEM.CPL | Modems |
| NCPA.CLP | Network connections |
| NETCPL.CPL | Network settings |
| NUSRMGR.CPL | User manager on Windows XP |
| ODBCCP32.CPL | ODBC Data Source Administrator |
| PASSWORD.CPL | Passwords |
| POWERCFG.CPL | Power Management |
| SYSDM.CPL | System |
| TELEPHON.CPL | Telephony |
| THEMES.CPL | Desktop Themes |
| TIMEDATE.CPL | Date/Time |
Your copy of Windows may have other CPL files, which add additional commands to Control Panel. You can restrict them in the same way as the common commands listed above.
How to Disable a command of Control Panel
Step 1: Run Folder Guard
After you have installed Folder Guard on your computer, run it by clicking on its desktop icon or using the command on the Start - Programs menu of Windows:
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Step 2: Add the CPL file you want to protect
Choose the Protect - Add File command from the menu, navigate to the C:\Windows\System32 folder, and add the CPL file you want to protect to the list of objects displayed in the Folder Guard window:
In this example, we have added the file timedate.cpl that is responsible for the Date/Time command of Control Panel, as shown in the table above.
Step 3: Assign the No Access attribute
Right-click on the CPL file you have added in the Folder Guard window, and choose Access - No Access from the popup menu:
Note a little stop sign icon that has appeared next to the timedate.cpl file, which is the indication of the restricting attribute you have assigned to it.
Step 4: Enable the protection
That's it! Now enable the protection, and try to use the Date/Time command of Control Panel: it will have no effect!
What you can do with Folder Guard:
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