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Prevent copying contents from your PC

In a previous article we had written about how to prevent copying content from computer to USB device. Here is another technique to prevent others copy contents from your PC.

The freeware utility MK Drive Access Control helps you lock all drives including USB and CD/DVD drives from unwanted access with a password.


With this tool you can lock/ unlock all kind of drives including Windows installation drive from access, lock CD/DVD drives doors to prevent write and block USB drives to prevent other users copy your private files.

As USB devices are extremely handy, anyone can easily copy contents from a computer, so this protection is very useful in some instances.

The freeware program MK Drive Access Control can be downloaded from here.
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  1. Raj11:06 PM, February 16, 2010

    Thanks for sharing. I am sure this will useful at my workplace.

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