Would you like to learn how to use a group policy to limit the options available on the Control panel of Windows? In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a group policy to display only a specific group of options on the Control panel.
• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
• Windows 7
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Tutorial GPO – Limit Control panel options available
On the domain controller, open the group policy management tool.
Create a new group policy.
Enter a name for the new group policy.
In our example, the new GPO was named: MY-GPO.
On the Group Policy Management screen, expand the folder named Group Policy Objects.
Right-click your new Group Policy Object and select the Edit option.
On the group policy editor screen, expand the User configuration folder and locate the following item.
Access the folder named Control Panel.
Enable the item named Show only specified Control Panel items.
Enter the name of the options that should be available to the user.
To save the group policy configuration, you need to close the Group Policy editor.
Congratulations! You have finished the GPO creation.
Tutorial GPO – Limit the Control panel options
On the Group policy management screen, you need to right-click the Organizational Unit desired and select the option to link an existent GPO.
In our example, we are going to link the group policy named MY-GPO to the root of the domain.
After applying the GPO you need to wait for 10 or 20 minutes.
During this time the GPO will be replicated to other domain controllers.
On a remote computer, try to access the Control panel.
In our example, we used a GPO to limit the options available on the Control panel to Mouse and Keyboard.
