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Prevent changes to file system settings (For Current User).
With this setting you can prevent changes to file system settings using the Display system icon in Control Panel.
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Description: You can prevent changes to the default file system settings using the display system icon from the current applets list displayed in the control panel. This can be done by hiding the file system button from the system properties dialog box. The file system button enables to change the file system settings of your system. Through this setting you can configure the role of hard drive along with the other removable drives attached to your system. It also allows setting default functioning on system and program error reporting. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkey \system does not exist, create it as explained below. Then, create a dword value nofilesyspage in the right panel. Now, right-click and modify its value to 1 to prevent changes to file system settings. However, if you want to enable the setting, change the value data to 0 or delete the added value. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.
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Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\] |
Location: Current User |
Value Name: System |
Data Type: Key |
Enabled Value: |
Disabled Value: |
Action Type: Add an Entry |
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Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\] |
Location: Current User |
Value Name: NoFileSysPage |
Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value) |
Enabled Value: 1 |
Disabled Value: 0 |
Action Type: Add an Entry |
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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit". |
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Second, go to <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\] </b> and create a new key as "System". |
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Create a new 'DWORD value' as "NoFileSysPage". |
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Right-click on "NoFileSysPage" and select 'Modify'. |
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Finally, set the value data as "1" and click 'OK'. |
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