The secret to making data more secure, use windows disk settings

  
        Nowadays, the importance of data is self-evident. However, there are many risks in many data storage methods. Confidential emails, important data, private files and even chat records, the loss or damage of these data may bring us immeasurable losses. What should I do? Many business users feel particularly guilty. In fact, don't worry, you can lock the hard drive of your computer with a simple setup, so you can let others not access the restricted disk. This method is the use of WindowsXP Group Policy settings, is very convenient and practical.

first click on the lower left corner of the Windows "Start → Run", type "gpedit.msc" in the dialog box, this opens The Group Policy settings window. Then in the Group Policy settings window, open the Local Computer Policy→User Configuration→Administrative Templates→Windows Components→Windows Explorer option. In the settings on the right, find the "Prevent access to the drive from ‘My Computer' option. Right click on the "Unconfigured" status of this option and select "Properties".

In the dialog box has three options, namely "not configured", "Enabled" and "Disabled." Select "Enabled", and then a list of drop-down menus for selecting a drive will appear. If you want to restrict the use of a hard disk, hard disk 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 drive C". If you want to turn off all hard drives, optical drives, etc., you can check "Restrict all drives" and click Apply or Save Settings.

Then go to "My Computer", suggesting that access failure occurs when you click the C drive or other drive is limited. It is worth mentioning that this method of setting Group Policy is very safe, even if someone else through the "Explorer", "Run" dialog box, Web browser and DIR commands, etc., can not view the files in the drive. As a result, the user as long as all the important files into a partition and restrict them, not afraid of other people find their secret

use of computer users have their own secret documents, especially for business users In other words, naturally, people are not willing to let others use their own computers, so as to avoid leakage of trade secrets, then try the Windows disk settings in this tutorial, which can make your data more secure and protect your privacy to some extent.
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