Prevent Access to Disk Drive In Windows 10

You can Prevent access to Disk Drive in Windows 10 with the help of group policy editor feature. Suppose you pc is shared by another user in your office or home. If you have any important data on a drive which you don’t want to share. Then you can protect your drive access by other user. If you will enable this feature then user can’t be able to access specific drive. Its a great feature in windows 10.

Prevent Access to Disk Drive In Windows 10

First of all Press Windows Key + R from keyboard, then Run Dialog box will prompt then type gpedit.msc. Click on OK button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now on the Local Group Policy editor windows, Navigate below key from the left pane…

User Configuration => Administrative template => Windows Components => File Explorer

Then on the right pane scroll down and Double-Click on Prevent access to drives from Computer options. Or Right-click on it and then Click on Edit.

Now on the next windows, Select Enabled radio button, Then under option Drop-down menu select drive which you want to Restrict. Then Click on Apply and OK. In my case I have choose D:Drive.

Now when user will try to access Disk Drive which you have restrict then it will show message “This operation has been cancelled due to restriction in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator. ” 

If you want to remove restriction then follow 1-3 steps. Then Select Not Configure radio button and then Click on Apply and OK.  

 

Srikanth Goud

Virtualization Administrator                  

Enable and Disable Fast Startup In Windows 10

You can Enable and Disable fast Startup in Windows 10. Windows 10 comes with great feature and very useful feature to customize Speedup. In this tutorial i will show you step by step to do it. Its help to start your PC faster then normal. You can make faster Shutdown and Hibernate your windows 10 PC. Hibernate means when hibernate PC then again start PC then your session will resume. There no means of fast shutdown is that Shutdown your PC from Power Button. Now a days this feature is very useful because peoples very less time for multitasking work. So they want system process should be faster. 

Enable and Disable Fast Startup 

First of Go to your Windows 10 PC then Type Control Panel in search box and then Click on Control Panel. 

Now on the Control Panel Windows Click on Power Options.

Now on the Power options windows on the left pane Click on Choose what the power button does option.  

Now Under Define power button and turn on password protection section, Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable option.

Enable Fast Startup Windows 10

 

Now to Enable Fast Startup, Enable Turn on fast startup (recommended) check box under Shutdown settings. It will make your pc fast after shutdown. Restart will not affected. Then Click on Save Changes. 

Disable Fast Startup Windows 10

To Disable fast startup windows 10, Uncheck Turn on fast Startup (Recommended) check box under shutdown settings. Then Click on Save Changes. Now Fast startup has been disabled.

 

Now when you will disable fast startup then Boot time will be increase comparison to normal boot time. You will have to enable hibernate setting from power options windows.

Thanks & Regards 

Srikanth Goud

Virtualization Administrator