Im trying to lock out the control panel in NT workstation could any body give me some clues on how to do this?? Cheers in advance! Mike

Mike, It is similar to in Win95 there is more than one way to do this but the easiest way is to setup "Policies" if you check through the NT CD-ROM and search for policies, you will find several related items on this. You will be able to lockout regedit32, desktop settings all of control panel or just parts. Hope this helps

You could also run a batch file through the login script that renames the control panel components. eg: @echo off if exist c:\winnt\system32\telephon.cpl rename c:\winnt\system32\telephon.cpl *.cp2 >nul if exist c:\winnt\system32\devapps.cpl rename c:\winnt\system32\devapps.cpl *.cp2 >nul if exist c:\winnt\system32\ups.cpl rename c:\winnt\system32\ups.cpl *.cp2 >NUL if exist c:\winnt\system32\ups.cpl rename c:\winnt\system32\ups.cpl *.cp2 >nul if exist c:\winnt\system32\joy.cpl rename c:\winnt\system32\joy.cpl *.cp2 >nul if exist c:\winnt\system32\ncpa.cpl rename c:\winnt\system32\ncpa.cpl *.cp2 >nul if exist c:\winnt\system32\srvmgr.cpl rename c:\winnt\system32\srvmgr.cpl *.cp2 >nul if exist c:\winnt\system32\sysdm.cpl rename c:\winnt\system32\sysdm.cpl *.cp2 >nul if exist c:\winnt\system32\inetcpl.cpl rename c:\winnt\system32\inetcpl.cpl *.cp2 >nul etc.... Then if you need to use any components, rename them back: @echo off if exist c:\winnt\system32\*.cp2 rename c:\winnt\system32\*.cp2 *.cpl >nul control

Microsoft Knowledge base document Q168579 will help you with that.