Problem Reports and Solutions: Vista does a good job of providing solutions for device and software compatibility issues.Network and Sharing Center: especially useful to laptop users for providing connectivity information.There are a few applets here that you may wonder why I’ve not hidden them:
This is what I’m looking at providing for users in Windows Vista:Īs you can see there’s many more icons, but Vista does provide many more features. There are also many Group Policy settings that allow you to be fairly granular for settings within these applets. Note that there’s nothing in these applets (yes, including Network Connections) that lets standard users change system settings. Here’s what Control Panel applets I would consider to be relevant to most users in a Windows XP environment:Ī couple of these may not be completely necessary, but they give users enough access to manage their environment to suit the way they work. I consider the task of restricting the available applets as a means of de-cluttering the interface, not ‘locking the system down’. Restrict applets too much and you can make support difficult. Without administrative access, users cannot make system wide changes. There’s a good chance that list will be different for everyone, but here’s my approach: Hiding Control Panel applets is not a replacement for ensuring users are not logging into their workstations with administrative access. Controlling access to applets is no different than earlier version of Windows, but given that there are approximately 48 default applets in Windows Vista compared to 29 in Windows XP, more consideration will need to be given to those which you make available.
At some point in your migration from Windows XP to Windows Vista you’ll no doubt be looking to manage which Control Panel applets are available to users.
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