Thursday 25 July 2013

how to lock drive

>>Locking Drives:We don’t usually prefer to lock our drives, but sometimes it becomes nesscary. Say for instance you might have stored your office documents in D:\ and you don’t want your kids to access it, in such case this technique can be useful for you. Please don’t try this tweak with your root drive (usually C:\ is the root drive) since root drives arenot intended to be locked because they are mandatory for the system and application programs.*.Start&Runand typeRegeditto open Registry editor*.BrowseHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer*.Create a newDWORDvalueNoViewOnDriveand set its value as2^ (Alpha Number of Drive Letter-1) where Alpha number are simple counting of alphabets from A to Z as 1 - 26For example: to lock C:\, Alpha number of C is3 so 2^ (3-1) = 4(decimal value)*.Tolock more drives, calculate thevalue of each drive and then set sum of those numbers as value*.Tounlock your drivejustdelete the keyfrom the registry.

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