vista registry tip

Whether you’re an office IT administrator or just a parent trying to keep the kids from changing the family PC’s settings, you may want to restrict access to Windows Vista’s Control Panel. In fact, with this Registry hack, you can lock down the CP altogether. Go to the Key Name HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. Right-click to use New and DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name the new Value NoControlPanel and give it a value of 1. The effect is immediate. If you or anyone else tries to access the CP, an error message pops up notifying you that the command has been cancelled because of system restrictions