How to Restrict Access To Drives In My Computer in Windows??????
any suggestion???????
How to Restrict Access To Drives In My Computer in Windows??????
any suggestion???????
If your PC uses many users, you would like to restrict access to its drives to prevent users from deleting valuable data.
First type gpedit.msc in the search box of the Start Menu and press Enter.
Now go to User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >>Windows Components >>Windows Explorer. After that on the right side under Setting>> double click on Prevent access to drives from My Computer.
Choose Enable afterward under Options from the drop down menu you can restrict a specific drive, restrict them all. The main drive possibly would like to restrict is the C:\ drive. Restricting the entire drives means they cannot access the CD or DVD drive, and cannot use a flash drive if they require getting files from it.
The restrictions gives effect instantaneously, no reboot is required. When a user opens up My Computer they will be see which drives are listed, but when they try to access a restricted drive, they will obtain the following error message.
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Here is the method to resolve the issue regarding the access of the drive in the Windows vista. Read the steps and the follow them accordingly. It will resolve your problem. So do the same.
• Click on the Start>>run>> then type regedit in the run box and press enter
• Now navigate for "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer"
• After that Right Click on the right plane and click on the new and after that to DWORDS
• Rename is as Noviewondrive
• Right click on the same and click on modify
• Enter which drive you want to restrict and it’s done.
Go through the step given below.
- click on the Start>> type gpedit.msc in the search box
- Then look for User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Explorer
- Then double click on "prevent access to drives from My Computer."
- Now enable the no access to drive and it is done
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