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Ever faced a situation when someone used your system and copied some data which you didn't want to share with him? Your answer would be "YES". Almost all of us face this situation. We all have some private data or some software which we don't want to share with others. But we can't do anything when our friends or relatives copy them from our system.
If you say we can hide the data, then how much data will we hide? We can't hide everything and many power users know ways to access the hidden data.
Above situation is only a single example. Sometimes someone can also delete a file from your system which was required by some program or someone can delete your important documents. What will you do in that situation?
Don't you want to have some kind of program which can restrict "Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete" operations in Windows, so that no one can copy, delete your data?
Here we are going to share a very small and portable application which does the job perfectly. This application has been made by our friend "Ritesh" who is also an active reader of AskVG.
Its a standalone EXE file. You just need to run the file and it'll disable the Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete functions.
Now whenever someone will try to cut, copy or delete a file/folder, nothing will happen. No keyboard shortcut will work. So your data would be safe.
To enable the operations again, open "Task Manager" and select the "Stopper.exe" file from the list. Right-click on it and select End task or End process option.
You can change the EXE name to something else like "kernel.exe", etc to confuse the users if they look into Task Manager.
If you want Windows to automatically start the application at each startup, then create its shortcut and paste in "Startup" folder in Programs menu.
Oh yeah, It works in all Windows versions.
You can download the file using following link:
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TB
I'm guessing this is for the versions of Windows that don't have Group Policy settings like XP Home, Vista Home Premium, Basic, etc.
To the best of my knowledge IT administrators at my employer have disabled cut, copy and past in various programs using Group Policy settings in XP Professional.
ExistenceGuest
nice
The Champ
Yo,this sounds too cool for me and now I'm going it to Bringin' it to my Hood
Nikolaj
Nice app.
Can anyone tell me why all my exe files in My docs got deleated when i update vista but not 7
anon
this is both useful, and a nice little prank ;)
bulks_drain
well..i think there still is a problem..coz i tried dragging the folder i want to copy w/o using copy or paste..i just drug and drop it..it worked..i'm not saying that it's no use..just wanna add up or share my idea....jejeje
Twins
It is a good software but if some one open the "TaskManager " and terminate "Stop.exe" how it happen, i want to know the reply.
Please reply me asap because it had been happened to me long time ago
Thank you
Twins
itwilleasy
when I use it, CPU often above 50%
Paul
I found a bug: when I drag an object, it still copies or moves. This must be fixed.
Though I like it.
sk502603
Nice application but works only with keyboard command, doesn't work with mouse command.
if you right click on any file, you can transfer file to USB Pen Drive by 'send to...' option or you can drag the file with mouse.
Is there any update avialable.