Disable control panel

Time Required: 1 Minute, 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes

Notes: If multiple people use your computer, this is good protection against having them screw things up.

Warnings: This is dangerous if you do not know what you are doing. I do not take responsibility for anything that you do to your computer that harms it or any files on it in any way.

Written By: Max Feinstein

How to do it:

• Navigate to Start > Run and click on Run.
• In the input field, type "regedit" and then press enter.
• Navigate to the following key in the registry by clicking on the +'s next to the folders in the left pane (see picture below).
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
• Right-click a blank space in the right-hand pane and go to New > DWORD.
• Name the new DWORD "NoControlPanel".
• Double click the new DWORD.
• For the value, enter "1" and click OK.
• Close regedit.

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Regedit's left-hand pane.