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How does Win7 prohibit installing software on disk C? We all know that the C disk of the system can not hold too many things, if the C disk is full, the running speed of the system will be very slow. However, when we install the software under the Win7 system, the default installation directory of the system is disk C. if you forget to choose, you will download and install it directly to disk C. In the face of this problem, the best way is to set up a ban on installing software on disk C, so how to do it? Please see below.

How does Win7 prohibit installing software on disk C?

1. Restrict the use of drives

If we do not want others to use our drive to view our more important and private files, or to modify and delete system files, such as installing the C disk of the system or the drive letter containing some important files, we can restrict the use of an important drive by doing the following.

The specific steps are as follows:

1. Click start, click "run" in the menu, and the system will open a "run" dialog box. Enter "gpedit.msc" in this dialog box, click OK or press enter, and the system will automatically pop up a "Group Policy" window.

2. In the "Group Policy" window, we can see that under the "Local computer" policy in the left window, there are two options: "computer configuration" and "user configuration". Here, we select the "user configuration" option, and then open the "user configuration", "Administrative templates", "WINDOWS components" and "WINDOWS Explorer" options. At this time, we will find that in the right window of the entire window, There are some options for us to choose from.

3. Next, in the settings window on the right, select the item "prevent access to drives from my computer" and double-click the mouse on this option, then the "prevent access to drives from my computer" settings window appears. After selecting "enabled", you can see that a drop-down list of selected drives appears below, if you want to restrict the use of a drive Just select the drive.

For example, if we want to restrict the use of disk C, select "restrict drive C only" and it will be fine. If you want to turn off all drives, you can select restrict all drives.

Select the drive to which you want to restrict others' access, and then click OK or apply the button to complete the entire setup process.

After the setup is complete, let's try to see if the drive we set up is limited. Open the drive with limited settings, and the system automatically pops up a prompt to disable the use of the open drive.

From this we can see that our settings are in effect. Even using the DIR command, the run dialog box, and the network drive dialog box, you cannot view the directory and data for this drive.

Second, hide the drive

1. Click start, click "run" in the menu, and the system will open a "run" dialog box. Enter "gpedit.msc" in this dialog box.

2. Select the "user configuration" option, and then open "user configuration", "Administrative templates", "WINDOWS components", and "WINDOWS Explorer". In the settings window on the right, select "hide these specified drives in my computer" item. Also in its properties, there are three options. We select the "enabled" item, and then select the corresponding drive to hide in the drop-down list below.

4. After the setup is complete, we go back to the WIN desktop and open my computer. Will we find that the drive letter we have set is missing? at this point, the whole setup process is complete.

The above is the operation method that Win7 forbids C disk to install software, through setting, we can rest assured to download and install software. It is important to note that although we hide the drives, users can still access these drives and the data in them from other programs. For example, using WORD's "Open" dialog box, we can open our hidden drive.

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