Folder Protection Windows Without Special Software

Important folders and confidential so as not easily accessed by others should be given special attention in the form of protection for the safety of existing data in those folders. Moreover, this protection to protect the rights of a child's access to specific folders adults.

How to protect folders on your windows is easy enough just by using commands from the prompt drive or Command Prompt.
Already know What is the command prompt? if you already know but continue to the next paragraph if you do not know what it is command prompt the following definition by Blog Learning Computer Science is a command prompt are commands that can be given to the computer through command prompt drive such as DIR, COPY, VER, SYS, REN, MD , CD, CLS, FORMAT, FDISK etc..

Here is the command to protect a folder on windows xp. And in practice this time I am using windows xp service pack 2.

Previously apologize because this article is not equipped with a drawing for ease access for following this blog and how to protect folders from being accessed by another computer user.

Run Command Prompt by clicking Start - All Programs - Accessories - Command Prompt.

as an example we will protect the existing DATA folder on drive D, then the command is:

cacls d: \ data / p administrators: n

then press ENTER

the question arises "Are You Sure (Y / N)?

Y type stating Yes and then press ENTER

by running the command above the existing DATA folder on the D drive is protected and can not be accessed again.

To grant access or open the folder DATA DATA folder protection must be running cacls commands as follows:

cacls d: \ data / p administrators: f

with the command above, so that once protected the DATA folder will be accessible again.

The weakness of protection orders through the command prompt folder is easily accessible again if the computer user already knows this folder protection command (cacls).