Lock Drives In Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7

Many of us might be having confidential documents in various drives of our system, which we don’t like to be accessed by others. Here is the way for you to lock the drives of your choice and your files will be pretty safe inside !!!

Follow the simple steps below :

• Goto "RUN" and type "gpedit.msc"

• A window will be opened (Group Policy).You will find two options in left side of the page.

• Drop down the "user configuration" and again drop down sub menu "Administrative Templates" and again drop down another sub menu "Windows Components" and click on "Windows Explorer".

• Right click on "Prevent Access To Drives From My Computers" and then click on properties. (For Windows XP)

• Right click on "Prevent Access To Drives From My Computer" and then click on Edit. (For Windows Vista & Windows 7)

• Click on the radio button "Enabled" and you can select any option in the menu.( For Windows XP)

• Click on the radio button "Enabled" and a drop down menu of "Restrict all drives" will be activated. Under that you can select any drives of your choice to be locked. (For Windows Vista & Windows 7)

Follow the same procedures for disabling it.

Note : You have ample of options other than "Prevent Access To Drives From My Computer" under the "Windows Explorer" menu. You can have the complete available options that can be modified under "Administrative Templates" menu like; Control Panel, Desktop, Network, Shared Folders, Start Menu And Task Bar, System, Windows Components etc. You can have complete settings under the "All Settings" menu. According to your choice and use, you can modify the settings. All options can be disabled as they were before.

Thank you..