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Hi <br />
All my clients run windows 8. &nbsp;I need to control some of the windows 8 features where users can change their login picture and are able to personalize the 'lock screen'.<br />
Here is I want under PC settings to be shown to users:<br />
- Notifications<br />
-Search<br />
- General<br />
-Windows update<br />
I have tried already in group policy, user config, admin templ, control panel by disabling control panel altogether but this disables users from getting updates as well, so now I am choosing 'show only specified control panel items' it works for control panel items but how can I disable items when users go to charm bar, click on settings, then click on 'Change PC Settings'. &nbsp; Need help
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Hi 
All my clients run windows 8.  I need to control some of the windows 8 features where users can change their login picture and are able to personalize the 'lock screen'.
Here is I want under PC settings to be shown to users:
- Notifications
-Search
- General
-Windows update
I have tried already in group policy, user config, admin templ, control panel by disabling control panel altogether but this disables users from getting updates as well, so now I am choosing 'show only specified control panel items' it works for control panel items but how can I disable items when users go to charm bar, click on settings, then click on 'Change PC Settings'.   Need help

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