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Monday, July 2, 2018 10:30 PM
Managing settings app page visibility using Group Policy For Windows 10 Pro
To Set Settings page visibility on Windows 10 , Do the Following
1. Use The Windows Key + Keyboard shortcut to open the Run Command
2. Type gpedit.msc and click OK to open the Local Group Policy
3. Browse the following path
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel
4. On the right side, double click the settings Page Visibility Policy
5. Select the Enabled Option
6. Under Options specify the list of pages to show or hide in the Settings app. To Specify a list pages to show, the policy string must begin with showonly:, and to specify a list pages to hide, it must begin with hide:.
* To hide specific page in the Settings App while showing the remaining pages, Enter the value under "Options":
hide:<settings-page-name>
For Example, you can hide the Display page using the following value
hide:display
* To show specific page in the Settings App while showing the remaining pages, Enter the value under "Options":
showonly:<settings-page-name>
For Example, if you want to show only the VPN page inside Network & Internet use the following value
showonly:network-vpn
*If you want to show more than one page, you can separate each page name with a semicolon
For example:
showonly:network-vpn;windowsupdate
Note: You can only configure visibility for settings pages and you cannot specify section, such as "System" or "Personalization." However, if you want to restrict access to a section, you can accomplish the results by setting a rule to hide all the pages from a particular section
7. Click Apply and Ok, Restart the Device to complete the process
Managing settings app page visibility using Registry For Windows 10 Home
1. Use the Windows Key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run Command
2. Type Regedit, and click OK to open the registry
3. Browse the following path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CurrentVersion
4. Right-click on the right side of "Explorer," Select New and Click ok String Value
5. Name the key SettingsPageVisibility and click OK
6. Double-click the newly created string value and define whether to show or hide certain settings pages
*To show only a page while hiding the rest, enter the following value in the "Value data" field:
showonly:<settings-page-name>
For Example, if you want to show the Windows Update page use the following value:
showonly:windowsupdate
- If you want to show more than one page, you can separate each page name with a semicolon
showonly:windowsupdate;themes
Note: You can only configure visibility for settings pages and you cannot specify section, such as "System" or "Personalization." However, if you want to restrict access to a section, you can accomplish the results by setting a rule to hide all the pages from a particular section
- Click OK and Restart the Machine to Apply the Changes
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 1:23 AM
Microsoft blog
Hiding pages in Settings with Windows 10 1703
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