If you are the administrator of public cafe or school,this trick will be helpful for giving protection to your system. You can disable writing to USB. This will prevent from file stealing. You have to login to administrator so that you can access regedit.
Go to start . Select run.
Type as regedit and hit enter
Now navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
In right panel you can find writeprotect and
Change the value to 00000001
That's all now no one can transfer data to USB. Now your system is protected.
Some files will be hidden from Users. If you want to see those files,you have to edit the registry. This hack will fit for both windows xp and Vista.
Go to Start-<run
Enter as Regedit
Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
In the right panel ,you can see the superhidden registry
Right click on the SuperHidden
Change the Data value to 1.
Click ok
Exit the registry and restart the windows.
Go to start->run
type as regedit
and hit enter
Registry edit will open.
Navigate to this Path by clicking the plus symbol:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
You can see as Recycle bin in right panel.
Change it as your wish.
You may want to hide the admin or some other accounts for privacy purpose. If you are having public cafe or organization or school ,then you probably need. I am going to guide you in this article to hide the Acccounts in Windows system.
- Now go to start->run
- Enter as "regedit" to open the registry window.
- Navigate to this Path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
- In the Right pane, Right click -> New -> String Value
- Right click on the new String Value and click Rename
- Enter the Name of the Account you want to hide.
- Right click on the String Value and Change value to 0 which hides it. If you want it to be Visible to all Enter the Value 1.
- Now Save and Exit the Registry Edit.
Restart the system.
When you login if you want to access the hidden account,then just press
"ctrl+alt+del" in login page.
Enter your hidden account and password.
