Prevent / Hide drives from My Computer won't effect

Question

I am planning to have a small internet cafe and want to prevent/hide them from opening Drive D which is for games. I enabled Prevent access to drives from My Computer and Hide these specified drives in My Computer on Local Group Policy Editor but I can still access the drive. Tried regedit, restarting pc, running gpupdate /force command but no to avail.

The user I want to restrict is an admin account. The one you create during Windows 10 installation. I want the admin account not to open the Drive D partition but still run the games within the said drive. Is it possible?

Need your advise.

Thank you!

Answer 1

I don't think group policy is the way to do this.

You need to restrict access via account privileges. Assuming you'll be granting access via guest accounts you can do the following:

Changing Folder Permissions

1. Right Click on the Folder you wish to restrict properties on
2. Select “Properties”
3. In the Properties window go to the Security tab and click on Edit.
4. If the Guest user account is not on the list of users or groups that have permissions defined, you should click on Add.
5. Now you need to type the user name or the group of users for which you want to change the permissions. Type “Guest” in the names box.
6. After adding the guest account, Click Check Names and then click OK.
7. In the Security window, select the user/group you just added and then click in the first check box under Deny which is “Full Control” and then click OK.

Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-security/restricting-guest-accounts-access-to-my-files/a75b4c4c-c060-4bdc-80e2-66cd9e11ba8d