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Hiding hard drives in Win2k Pro
Name: sarahhh Date: July 10, 2004 at 11:37:36 Pacific OS: win95B/Win2k Pro CPU/Ram: 450 MHz/128 MB
Comment:
Hi,
I have a 60 gig drive that is partitioned into multiple drives (so there will me sufficient space for DOS,Win95,Win2k). The problem is that my brothers often get files off the internet and they don't care where they store it (I end up sorting everything).
I've tried using gpedit.msc, but it only goes up to drive e:. Is there any other way to resrict/hide certain drives so my brothers are forced to use only one place for storage? Here's my current drive configuration:
Name: David Leidig Date: July 12, 2004 at 01:54:03 Pacific
Reply:
As I remember, you can do that with tweak UI. Its from microsoft, but make sure u get the old version not the XP one. Unzip and right click the INF and click install. As I remember, its under the My Computer heading or something to that effect. has a check box to show or hide whatever drive you want down to z:
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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: July 12, 2004 at 05:14:51 Pacific
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If they're logging in with individual user accounts, set up a folder for each of them, and set the permissions on the other drives so that you are the only one with access to them.
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Response Number 3
Name: sarahhh Date: July 12, 2004 at 17:30:32 Pacific
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