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Generally, we don’t like others acessing data in our computer. With a small procedure, You can restrict limited users or other administrators of the system from using USB devices or DVD-ROMs.
You can control a lot of features using the Group Policy Editor. To do this,

Click ‘Start > Run’ and type ‘gpedit.msc’ and press [Enter].

When the Group Policy Editor window opens, you can tweak the settings of your choice. Make sure that you take note of the settings before changing any so you can undo the same. This is because there are a lot of settings here and is difcult to fnd something in particular, so you might have to browse through the whole list to get to the settings you require.

In the left pane of the window, browse to ‘User Confguration > Administrative Templates > WindowsComponents > WindowsExplorer’.

Then in the right pane, look for the setting ‘Prevent access to drives from My Computer’ and double-click on it.

In the new window, select the ‘Enabled’ button and from the dropdown list in the bottom window, select the drives you want to restrict access to. Apply and save the settings.

Exit from the policy editor and Windows will not allow the drives to be accessed, but note that they can still be accessed through the DOS prompt.

This tip is contributed by Prasanth Chandra from PCs Place < http://pcsplace.com> and Review Unit<http://reviewunit.com>

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