How to lock drives in windows.

Locking of drives on your PC is no longer a problem after going through this post.

STEPS TO LOCK DRIVE IN WINDOWS

•  Go to Start menu and then RUN and type "gpedit.msc" (without quotes) and Press Enter.

•  You will see a new dialog window , where you will see two things "Computer Configuration" and "User Configuration". Now click on "User Configuration".

•  Three items will be displayed. Now you have to Click on "Administrative Templates". Now go to "Windows Components".

•  A lot of Windows Components will be displayed. Now Click on " Windows Explorer".

•  Something like this: "Prevent Access To Drives From My Computers" will be displayed for you, double click on it and It will open its properties. Now to lock a drive or drives click on "Enabled" radio button. Now from the drop down menu select the drive that you want to lock or block.

•  Getting done with that click on apply and restart your system.

• Now, nobody will be able to access the particular drive you have locked.

•  To unlock the drive again follow the same procedure and just click on "Not configured" and apply the above settings and restart your system..