Disabling the Control Panel is a pretty common thing for admins to do. Here is how to do it in Windows 8 using both Group Policy as well as a manual registry hack.
It’s worth noting that this is something you probably won’t want to do on your home computer. But it’s useful to understand how it works in case yours is disabled and you want to enable it again.
Using a Local Group Policy Setting
Press the Win + R keyboard combination to bring up a run box, then type gpedit.msc and press enter.
When the Local Group Policy Editor opens navigate to:
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel
On the right hand side you should see a setting called “Prohibit access to Control Panel and PC settings”. Double click on it.
Then change the radio button over to Enabled.
Once you have applied the setting you will want to refresh your group policy settings, this can be done by running:
gpupdate /force
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