Hide Icons In Control-Panal

This is a trick for hiding the icons in the control panel, so that no one can install or uninstall application without your permission.

Control Panel: Hide Unused Applets

with the Registry

*To hide unused applets using the Registry, run the Registry Editor and go to

*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control

Panel\don't load.
*The key, as its name implies, determines which Control Panel applet icons are not loaded into the Control Panel.

*You'll still be able to run those applets from the command line after you hide them;

*you just won't be able to see their icons in the Control Panel.

*To hide an applet, create a new String value whose name is the filename of the applet you want to hide.
*For example, to hide the Mouse Control dialog box, the

String value would be main.cpl.

*Control Panel applets and their file names

Applet	File-Name
System Properties	sysdm.cpl
Display Properties	desk.cpl
Network Connections	ncpa.cpl
Accessibility Options	access.cpl
Applet	File-Name
Add or Remove Programs	appwiz.cpl
Add Hardware Wizard	hdwwiz.cpl
Internet Properties	Inetcpl.cpl
Region and Language Options	intl.cpl
Game Controller	joy.cpl
Mouse Properties	main.cpl
Sound and Audio Devices	mmsys.cpl
User Accounts	nusrmgr.cpl
ODBC Data Source Administrator	odbccp32.cpl
Power Options Properties	Powercfg.cpl
Phone and Modem Options	telephon.cpl
Time and Date Properties	timedate.cpl
Speech Properties                                                  sapi.cpl

*Create separate String values for each applet you want to hide, then exit the Registry.

*The applets will vanish from the Control Panel.

*To make a hidden applet appear again, delete its string value from this same registry key.

Conditions:

*Make sure you backup the files.

*User are at their own risk.