Strengthen data security and restrict access to local disks

Users who use computers have their own secret files, especially for business users, who are naturally reluctant to let others use their own computers to avoid leakage of trade secrets. But sometimes it is a bit ugly to not let others use their own computers. In fact, we can lock the hard disk of the computer by simple setting, so that others can access the restricted disk. This method is set up with Windows XP's group policy, which is very convenient and practical.

First click on “Start →Run” in the lower left corner of Windows, and enter “gpedit.msc” in the dialog box, which opens the “Group Policy” setting window. Then in the "Group Policy" setting window, open the "Local Computer Policy & Rarr; User Configuration & Rarr; Management Template & Rarr; Windows Components & Rarr; Windows Resource Manager" option. In the settings on the right, find the option to prevent access to ‘My Computer & rsquo;Access Drive" in the "Unconfigured" state of this option, select “Properties".

There are three options in the pop-up dialog box, “unconfigured”,“enabled” and “disabled”. Select “Enabled”, then a list of pull-down menus for selecting drives will appear. If you want to restrict the use of a hard drive, hard drive partition or even an optical drive, just select the drive. For example, we want to limit the use of system disk C:, select “ only limit the drive C & rdquo; If you want to turn off all hard drives, optical drives, etc., you can check "Restrict all drives" and click Apply or Save Settings.

Next, go to “My Computer", and click on the C drive or other restricted drive when the access fails. It is worth mentioning that this method of setting Group Policy is very safe, even if others pass the “Explorer”, “Run” dialog, web browser and DIR command, etc., it is not possible to view the drive. The file is gone. In this way, users simply put all the important files in a partition and limit them, so they are not afraid of others discovering their secrets.