> Dear Expert
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> My faimily member including my 7 year old son creates trouble with my PC which i use only in my home.
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> In my laptop, i have winxpp with all latest updations, and having three partitions and Two users: 1.Boss(My Self), 2. Harsh(My Son) without password
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> user boss is password procted hence no one can login without exact password in simple way.
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> All my important files/application/source codes are kept in Drvice D & E.
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> But when they start it, they often handles laptop carelessly and moves
> datas hither and thither.
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> Hence It becomes hadache for me.
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> Is there any way to Procted My drive (D: or E:) so that no other user exectp
> me can touch/access the Drive D:/E:
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> Please Help.
>
> *Exchange of One $ Create only same one $, But Exchage of one Ideas Makes different two Ideas*
You can hide the drive letters from showing up in explorer if that helps.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
NoDrives
Value is a bit flag for hidden drives. ie: 04 for C drive, 0x18 for D and E (bits 3,4 set). You could enter:
18 00 00 00
You could for example write this in notepad and save with a .reg extension (say HideDandE.reg):
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=hex:18,00,00,00
Dblick to merge into registry.
It's a poor attempt I know but you may have a chance to stop your son (I doubt - been there done that:) My solution was to give up and buy a computer for myself that nobody else were allowed to use (and beware the computer with better hardware specs goes to son and wife).
XP has password protection but that always gave me trouble.
Cetin Basoz