To make your folders inaccessible
1. Open cmd.
2. Change to the directory where your folder is located. cd <dir_name>
3. cacls <directory name> /e /p everyone:n
4. Now noone, including you can not open or delete that folder/directory.
To remove the restrictions, again follow from step 1 and 2.
5. cacls <directory name> /e /p everyone:f
Thats it. Now you can protect your folders from unauthorised access.
How to hide drives for your security & privacy ?
Hide your Drives for security & Privacy. This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives from your computer follow the steps.
Go to Start-> Type regedit in the Run command window
Now it opens the Registry, do these things very carefully
Click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Now in the right pane of the Registry click right mouse button and select DWORD to create a new DWORD item and give name as NoDrives (it is case sensitive).
Now modify DWORD (NoDrives) value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal).
Now restart your computer, now when you click on My Computer no drives will be shown!
To display the drives in My Computer window
Repeat the 1 and 2 steps
Now delete the DWORD (NoDrives) shown in the Registry right pane.
Again restart your computer. You can see now all the drives displayed again.
1. Open cmd.
2. Change to the directory where your folder is located. cd <dir_name>
3. cacls <directory name> /e /p everyone:n
4. Now noone, including you can not open or delete that folder/directory.
To remove the restrictions, again follow from step 1 and 2.
5. cacls <directory name> /e /p everyone:f
Thats it. Now you can protect your folders from unauthorised access.
How to hide drives for your security & privacy ?
Hide your Drives for security & Privacy. This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives from your computer follow the steps.
Go to Start-> Type regedit in the Run command window
Now it opens the Registry, do these things very carefully
Click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Now in the right pane of the Registry click right mouse button and select DWORD to create a new DWORD item and give name as NoDrives (it is case sensitive).
Now modify DWORD (NoDrives) value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal).
Now restart your computer, now when you click on My Computer no drives will be shown!
To display the drives in My Computer window
Repeat the 1 and 2 steps
Now delete the DWORD (NoDrives) shown in the Registry right pane.
Again restart your computer. You can see now all the drives displayed again.
