Prevents users from using My Computer to gain access to the content of selected drives.
If you have a shared or public computer that several people use, you might want to restrict access to it’s drives to prevent users from deleting important data. Today we look at restricting access to some or all drives on the machine using Local Group Policy.
Note: This method uses Local Group Policy Editor which is not available on home versions of Windows 7 or Vista and minimum windows operating system should be at list windows 2000.
just follow the steps.
1. go into your search box of your Start menu, type gpedit.msc and hit enter
you will see the following windows
2. after that select the User Configuration>Administrative Templates and
hit enter.
3. now you will see in the right section Windows Component option
4. just select this and hit enter
5. after that select the File Explorer(for windows 10) or Windows Explorer(for below)
6. you will see in the right section a scrolling list will be appear
just go down and select the option Prevent access to drives from My Computer hit enter
7. after that following windows will be appear
8. if you want to Prevents users from using My Computer to gain access
to the content of selected drives.
then choose the Enable option and select which drive you want to restrict(Restricting all drives means they can’t access the CD or DVD drive, and cannot use a flash drive if they need to get files from it. ) from the drop down menu
If you enable this setting, users can browse the directory structure of the selected drives in My Computer or File Explorer, but they cannot open folders and access the contents. Also, they cannot use the Run dialog box or the Map Network Drive dialog box to view the directories on these drives.
To use this setting, select a drive or combination of drives from the drop-down list. To allow access to all drive directories, disable this setting or select the "Do not restrict drives" option from the drop-down list.
Note: The icons representing the specified drives still appear in My Computer, but if users double-click the icons, a message appears explaining that a setting prevents the action.
Also, this setting does not prevent users from using programs to access local and network drives. And, it does not prevent them from using the Disk Management snap-in to view and change drive characteristics.
this article was for to restrict the local drive of your computer if you want to restrict your usb drive or pen drive then you visit at the following link
How to prevent the access of pendrive or removable disk into your pc
if you have any problem regarding this article then you can comment me in comment section or you can also message me on instagram
thanks for visiting at this blog
If you have a shared or public computer that several people use, you might want to restrict access to it’s drives to prevent users from deleting important data. Today we look at restricting access to some or all drives on the machine using Local Group Policy.
Note: This method uses Local Group Policy Editor which is not available on home versions of Windows 7 or Vista and minimum windows operating system should be at list windows 2000.
just follow the steps.
1. go into your search box of your Start menu, type gpedit.msc and hit enter
you will see the following windows
2. after that select the User Configuration>Administrative Templates and
hit enter.
3. now you will see in the right section Windows Component option
4. just select this and hit enter
5. after that select the File Explorer(for windows 10) or Windows Explorer(for below)
6. you will see in the right section a scrolling list will be appear
just go down and select the option Prevent access to drives from My Computer hit enter
7. after that following windows will be appear
8. if you want to Prevents users from using My Computer to gain access
to the content of selected drives.
then choose the Enable option and select which drive you want to restrict(Restricting all drives means they can’t access the CD or DVD drive, and cannot use a flash drive if they need to get files from it. ) from the drop down menu
If you enable this setting, users can browse the directory structure of the selected drives in My Computer or File Explorer, but they cannot open folders and access the contents. Also, they cannot use the Run dialog box or the Map Network Drive dialog box to view the directories on these drives.
To use this setting, select a drive or combination of drives from the drop-down list. To allow access to all drive directories, disable this setting or select the "Do not restrict drives" option from the drop-down list.
Note: The icons representing the specified drives still appear in My Computer, but if users double-click the icons, a message appears explaining that a setting prevents the action.
Also, this setting does not prevent users from using programs to access local and network drives. And, it does not prevent them from using the Disk Management snap-in to view and change drive characteristics.
this article was for to restrict the local drive of your computer if you want to restrict your usb drive or pen drive then you visit at the following link
How to prevent the access of pendrive or removable disk into your pc
if you have any problem regarding this article then you can comment me in comment section or you can also message me on instagram
thanks for visiting at this blog
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