Quick overview:
If you do not want anyone to view the contents of your drives, I recommend that you deactivate all entries in My Computer. The standard programs can still be executed and your data will all be retained - only access to it will be denied.
1. Click one after the other on Start > Execute and type in the command line regedit program. The program that now appears is reminiscent of the familiar Windows Explorer.
2. Double-click through the following keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\Explorer and click with the right mouse button in the right-hand pane and select New > DWORD value.
3. This new value appears. After giving it the name NoDrives double-click on it. In the following line, enter 3fffffffff (There are 7 f) in. After they have been Ok confirmed and restarted, your workstation looks like this:
To undo this setting, simply delete the created value.
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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