Write-protection is useful for developers who want to read only 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 read only 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 read only a drive and how to unprotect them when needed.
The easiest way to read only 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.
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The easiest way to remove drive write protection is right-click the protected drive and click 'Enable write'.