Disabling CD-ROM / DVD-ROM

Because of a need / reason, we may want to disable the function of your CD-ROM / DVD ROM in your computer, such as avoiding the use by any such person, and so forth. The following tips will explain how we can 'stop' function from the CD-ROM / DVD ROM

Actually, these tips are not only focused on CD-ROM / DVD-ROM only, but also for all the drives installed on your computer, such as CD-RW drives, DVD-RW drive and so forth. The author intentionally used the term CD-ROM / DVD-ROM because both of these drives are still very commonly used by the public.

The way is as follows:

1. Right click on My Computer and select Properties

2. In the System Properties box, click the Hardware tab and press the Device Manager button

3. Click the plus sign [] in writing on DVD / CD-ROM drives. Will appear the names of the drives in our computers

4. Right-click on the drive that we want to disable, for example Pioneer DVD-ROM drive, then right click on the article PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-128P, then select Disable. In the box that appears, select Yes

5. Close the System Properties box

6. We can see the results directly via Windows Explorer. Open Windows Explorer by right-clicking on the Start menu and select Explore

7. Now we switch off the drive name was going to disappear. Although there are people who enter the piece CD / DVD then still will not work.
If we want to turn it back so we can change the options to be Enable Disable earlier.

Thus we can further improve the security of our computers can not be used for just anyone. This will be very useful on a computer that used to crowd

hopefully useful...