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Restricting Settings in Windows 10 1703

Posted on May 18, 2017August 19, 2017 by Jörgen Nilsson

In Windows 10 1703 – Creators Update there is a new Group Policy setting that actually allows us to control what is visible in “Settings” for our users. This is useful for computers with a specific purpose for instance or other business requirements. The policy is called “Settings Page Visibility” it can be used to either Hide a specific settings or Show only a specific setting or settings.

Example to hide the Bluetooth settings page we use the GPO with the settings hide:bluetooth as shown below.

HideOn the machine the Bluetooth settings is actually gone:

NoBluetoothWe can also use the Group Policy setting with the “ShowOnly” option as shown below.

ShowOnlyGPO

On the computer the Settings page will now only show, Colors, Start and Themes

ShowonlyThe syntax for the settings you want to hide/show is not that easy to find, this is where I found them, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/launch-settings-app

Updated after comment on post, the Gaming can be hidden the following needs to be added to hide the group.

hide:gaming-gamebar;gaming-gamedvr;gaming-broadcasting;gaming-gamemode

Tip on how to test them, you can just launch run and type: MS-Settings:Colors for instance and it will launch the Colors settings node. We can also use this to create shortcuts to different settings.

Run

And Colors is launched.

Colors

That is basically it, great for some scenarios!

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  • 7 thoughts on “Restricting Settings in Windows 10 1703”

    1. Dietmar says:
      May 19, 2017 at 11:03 am

      Game bar
      ms-settings:gaming-gamebar

      Game DVR
      ms-settings:gaming-gamedvr

      Broadcasting
      ms-settings:gaming-broadcasting

      Game Mode
      ms-settings:gaming-gamemode

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    2. Magnus says:
      May 23, 2017 at 8:25 am

      Gaming

      Game bar ms-settings:gaming-gamebar
      Game DVR ms-settings:gaming-gamedvr
      Broadcasting ms-settings:gaming-broadcasting
      Game Mode ms-settings:gaming-gamemode

      Mixed reality

      Mixed reality ms-settings:holographic
      Audio and speech ms-settings:holographic-audio

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    3. Paul Fisher says:
      May 24, 2017 at 2:46 am

      >Not all settings are in that list and can be removed … like all the Game settings for instance.

      Actually you can hide it if you hide all four “gaming” panes:

      hide:gaming-gamebar;gaming-gamedvr;gaming-broadcasting;gaming-gamemode

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      1. Jörgen Nilsson says:
        May 24, 2017 at 1:53 pm

        Hi,
        Thanks for the headsup, didn’t work when I tested it but will update the post.!
        Regards,
        Jörgen

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      2. Peter says:
        December 13, 2017 at 4:37 pm

        In 1709 it now contains an extra tab Xbox Networking which can be blocked by using gaming-XboxNetworking
        But when I block all tabs under Gaming, Gaming is still visible, when I clock on Gaming Settings gets unresponsive and finally closes.

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    4. Michael says:
      May 24, 2017 at 8:45 pm

      When will this feature arrive in Server 2016?

      Reply
      1. Jörgen Nilsson says:
        June 2, 2017 at 10:49 am

        Hi,
        I have no information on that 🙁
        Regards,
        Jörgen

        Reply

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