Write-protection is useful for developers who want to deny delete their source codes, for authors and writers who want to protect their content and stories; for artists who want to protect their images and creative artwork from redundant changes; or a businessman who wants to protect his business records. It doesn't only write-protect files and folders but also makes them delete-proof.
This article provides a quick and easy ways to deny delete any files on a drive in Windows 11,8,7,vista,xp.
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The following steps will tell us how to use GiliSoft File Lock to deny delete any files on drive and how to unprotect them when needed.
The easiest way to deny delete any files on one drive is right-click the drive and click 'GiliSoft File Lock'-->'Deny write',
then the selected drive will can not be modified by others.
Just as this picture:
The easiest way to remove drive write protection is right-click the protected drive and click 'Enable write'.