Restore Windows File And Folder Protection

Windows XP offers many new and more effective features to protect your system. For example, Windows hides files and folders stored on Windows, Program files and system directory to protect them from being changed or deleted.
When you want to open system folders for first time, windows displays below screen

These Files Are Hidden
This folder contains files that keep your system working properly. You should not modify its contents
Show the contents of this folder


If you click on “Show the contents of this folder” in left panel under System Tasks, you will view contents of folder or drive.

BUT

You can remove this feature forever by clicking on “Show the contents of this folder”.

To enable this feature again, you should change your registry entries.

1- Click Start > Run > and type “regedit” to run Windows Registry Editor (without quotes).
2- Find following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\
3- In right panel there are four DWORD values, for instance, shell:SystemDriveRootFolder.
4- double click on DWORD and give value of 1 to enable this feature
5- Close Windows Registry Editor and restart your computer.

Interesting tweak, but I would add an notice to it:
don't use it, if you are begginer, and you don't want to mess something up.

may be having a regedit entry file would be good, that brings the beginning to do what they wanted to do and prevents the crash of the computers. also made life better coz do it by one click instead of by hands.

Password Protection of Folder (under Window XP ) in LAN
Restore Windows File And Folder Protection

Please guide me the steps to protect a folder in Windows XP through password in LAN environment.
Rgds
P Ahuja

password protect to folder
Restore Windows File And Folder Protection

Please tell me how to provide password to folder .That is no one can open that folder except who know the password.Please sent me the answer by picture

-question by amit

How do you remove file and folder protection from files and folders
Restore Windows File And Folder Protection

While setting up a user account I was asked if I wanted to protect files and folders, so I clicke...Yes. Big mistake now I need to remove the protection. How is that done?

-reply by Gerald Moore