In a domain-joined networked environment, we always need to restrict users’ access to most PC settings and resources. It is necessary to do so for security and safety reasons. One crucial restriction that we always need to apply is to deny users access to PC Settings and Control Panel. And that is what this article is about. More specifically, this article covers the detailed steps to preventing users’ access to the Control Panel and PC Settings using Group Policy on Windows Server 2022.

In our example, our domain controller machine runs Windows Server 2022, on which we create the group policy. We create an Organization Unit (OU) level group policy directly on the (OU) that contains the users to which we apply the policy.

You may also like to read Install Active Directory On Windows Server 2022 Using PowerShell.

Steps to Deny Access to PC Settings and Control Panel

As we described in the scenario earlier, we create the policy that is linked to an OU, which contains the users to which we apply the restriction. We can create the group policy first and link that to the OU, or we can create the group policy directly on the OU. Either way ends up with the same result. However, we go with the second approach in our example. That being said, let’s go with the steps.

1. Press down the Windows key + R keys on your keyboard to open the Run dialogue box.
2. Type in gpmc.msc and press Enter to open the Group Policy Management console.

3. Right-click on the OU to which you want to associate the group policy. Then, select Create a GPO in this domain,… option.

4. Put a name for the Group Policy Object (GPO) in the relevant box, and click OK.

5. Once the GPO is created, right-click on it, and select Edit from the context menu.

6. On the Group Policy Management Editor window, expand Policies under User Configuration. Then, expand the Administrative Template and click on Control Panel. Finally, double-click on Prohibit access to Control Panel and PC settings.

7. On the configuration window, check the Enabled option. Then, click OK, and close the Group Policy Management Editor window.

To this end, we have created the group policy to prevent users’ access to the Control Panel and PC settings. We created it directly linked to the OU that contains user accounts that we want to restrict. So, it is all done. To verify it, go with the next section.

Verifying the Above Group Policy Configuration

To check the above restriction, we need to log in with a user account that is a member of the OU to which we linked the group policy. Then, we update the group policy and try to open the Control Panel and PC Settings. See the below steps.

1. Login to the client’s computer with a user account that is a member of the OU to which you linked the restriction.
2. Run gpupdate /force in the Run dialog box to perform group policy updates. Wait for a while until the group policy completes.

3. Once the group policy gets updated, try to open the Control Panel or PC Settings. It doesn’t open, and you will face the pop-up window shown in the below pic.

That is all we need to do to check how the restriction we configured works and if it is applied correctly.

Conclusion

It is a common setting in a domain environment to deny users access to the Control Panel and PC settings. It is essential for security and safety reasons. As the steps discussed above, we can apply this restriction simply by defining and configuring a group policy object to an OU that contains the target users.

In the end, I hope you found this article helpful. Do not hesitate to share your thoughts and queries in the comment section.

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n Microsoft Windows operating system when you want to delete a user account, the user profile will remain in the root directory of Windows. If you want to remove user profile correctly and completely from your system, follow the step by step article until you have deleted the user account and removed a user profile from your system drive and get free your hard disk.

How to Delete User Account in Windows 10?

Delete Windows 10 user profile correctly:

1. Backup user account files.
2. Delete user account.
3. Delete User Profile.

Note: Before deleting Windows 10 user profile, try to backup important data then apply the following article.

Step 1:  In Windows press Windows +R to open the Run and type “lusrmgr.msc”  for opening the windows Local user and group manager. The local users and groups manager let you create a user account, delete user account or remove user account and manage users and groups settings.

2. Now select the Users to see the existing users on your computer. To delete a user account, right-click the user name and select Delete to delete a user account.

Note: you can’t remove the built-in administrator of your computer, but you can delete user accounts you have created. 

3. Finally, on the prompt screen, hit Yes button to complete the process to delete Windows 10 user account.

Now you have deleted user account only, and the user profile remains on the system drive. Let’s remove user profile completely from the system. If the profile remains on the system, it will use disk spaces.

How to Remove User Profile in Windows 10?

In step 2, try to delete the remain user account profile from the system drive. To remove a user account profile, you need to have administrator privilege.

Step 2: Remove User Profile. Type “sysdm.cpl” on Windows Run and press enter to open System Properties.

1. When the System Properties opened, select the Advanced tab.
2. On Advanced tab click Setting under User Profiles. Don’t click Settings under Performance.
3. Select the user account profile you want to delete it.
4. Click Delete button and click Yes to accept and remove user profile completely from your system.

Now the user account has been deleted successfully and the user profile removed from your system also. Deleting user profile will prevent the system from keeping other deleted user account profiles on your computer.

How to Delete User Profile in Windows 10? – Video

This (delete user profile) is going to make us a bit crazy. Some users comment us that have a problem with deleting Windows 10 user profile with above method. I have tested again and created a video to delete a user account profile correctly in Windows 10. In this video tutorial, I have explained two methods to delete the user profile. The first method is the above but the second one is using a DelProf2 app. This app works perfectly in this tutorial.

Hope this video can help you to delete some corrupted or remove user profile without any issue.

Let us know if you still have any problem with deleting users profile in Windows 10 or other Windows.

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A simple task for Windows users! Let me ask you. Do you know how to delete Windows 10 user account and profiles correctly? I’m sure your answer is a big No! And because of this you are reading this article to learn how to delete Windows 10 user account and profile correctly.

What is User Account and User Profile?

Let me explain a bit about User Account and User Profile in Windows operating system. It will help you to understand more about the structure of a user account in Windows.

• User Account: An authorised user name and password for a user on Windows in order to login to a system.
• User Profile: The files and documents related to a User Account on a Windows system. It is a folder contains a user system desktop files. The other standard users can not access to this folder. But the administrator of a system can see the contents of a profile, even another administrator account.

I hope you got the functionality and roles of a user account and user profile on Windows operating system.

How to Delete Windows 10 User Account and Profile?

Let’s simply first delete Windows 10 user account and then going to remove the profile’s of that user account. We can manage user accounts and groups in Windows with local user and group manager.

1. To manage user accounts in Windows, type “lusrmgr.msc” on Windows Run and press enter. On local users and groups you see all user accounts of your Windows.

2. Select the user account you want to delete, then right click and click Delete to delete user account.

It will delete Windows user account but the user profile will be remain on Users folder in Windows drive. So let’s delete user profile from Windows drive.

3. Navigate to Windows drive and Users folder to see all user account profiles. You can not delete user profile like a simple folder.

4. To delete user account profile correctly in Windows 10, type “Sysdm.cpl” on Windows Run and press enter to open System Properties. On system properties select Advanced tab.

5. On system properties Advanced tab, click Settings under User Profiles to see all user account profiles.

6. The Account Unknown is the profile’s of the deleted user account. So select the Account Unknown and click Delete button.

7. On the Confirm Delete page, click Yes to delete user profile permanently from your Windows drive.

You can delete the other users and profiles also. But the Administrator account is will not delete from your system.

How to delete Windows 10 User Account and Profile?

If you are not prefer to read article, watch this video to learn how to correctly delete User Account Profile in Windows 10 and other Windows.

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