Techno Tips n' Trixx

Blocking Access To Specific Drives!!!!!

Steps :

1) Start > Run > "regedit" (without the quotes of course)

2) Search for the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
(User Specific Restriction)
OR

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
(System Wide Restriction)

3) Create a new DWORD value (within the above registry key) called "NoViewOnDrive" and set its data value to the number of the drive which you want to hide as per the list below:

A - 1 E - 16 I - 256 M - 4096 Q - 65536 U - 1048576 Y - 16777216
B - 2 F - 32 J - 512 N - 8192 R - 131072 V - 2097152 Z - 33554432
C - 4 G - 64 K - 1024 O - 16384 S - 262144 W - 4194304 ALL - 67108863
D - 8 H - 128 L - 2048 P - 32768 T - 524288 X - 8388608

4) Exit the Windows registry and restart the Windows session for the change to be applied