Settings Page Visibility

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, WindowsServer2016

Specifies the list of pages to show or hide from the System Settings app. This policy allows an administrator to block a given set of pages from the System Settings app. Blocked pages will not be visible in the app, and if all pages in a category are blocked the category will be hidden as well. Direct navigation to a blocked page via URI, context menu in Explorer or other means will result in the front page of Settings being shown instead. This policy has two modes: it can either specify a list of settings pages to show or a list of pages to hide. To specify a list of pages to show, the policy string must begin with "showonly:" (without quotes), and to specify a list of pages to hide, it must begin with "hide:". If a page in a showonly list would normally be hidden for other reasons (such as a missing hardware device), this policy will not force that page to appear. After this, the policy string must contain a semicolon-delimited list of settings page identifiers. The identifier for any given settings page is the published URI for that page, minus the "ms-settings:" protocol part. Example: to specify that only the About and Bluetooth pages should be shown (their respective URIs are ms-settings:about and ms-settings:bluetooth) and all other pages hidden: showonly:about;bluetooth Example: to specify that only the Bluetooth page (which has URI ms-settings:bluetooth) should be hidden: hide:bluetooth The availability of per-user support is documented here: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2102995

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

• Computer
  Allow Online Tips

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Version 1709
• User
  Always open All Control Panel Items when opening Control Panel

  At least Windows Server 2003 operating systems or Windows XP Professional
• User
  Hide specified Control Panel items

  At least Windows 2000
• User
  Prohibit access to Control Panel and PC settings

  At least Windows 2000
• Computer
  Settings Page Visibility

  At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Version 1703
• User
  Show only specified Control Panel items

  At least Windows 2000