How to hide Control Panel items from Control Panel

If you need to hide one or multiple Control Panel items from Control Panel to secure your control panel item access you have to follow below steps.

Steps to hide Control Panel items from Control Panel window:-

1. Go to START->RUN->Type "gpedit.msc",Then Enter OK.

2. A new window will open, In the left pane, we will see a Tree, Here we have to expand the tree by Clicking (+) sign.

Hide Control Panel items from Control

3. Expand or click on "User Configuration", then select "Administrative Templates" and select "Control Panel".

4. Double click on "Hide Specified Control Panel Applets" and select "Enabled".

5. Click on "Show"; in new window click "Add".

6. To hide Control Panel items from Control Panel type its name in dialog box. For example : if you type System, Windows will hide System icon from Control Panel.

Note that Group Policy will hide Control Panel items from Control Panel, a professional user can type sysdm.cpl in Run dialog box and run System Properties.