How to Restrict Users from Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete Operations in Windows?

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 and MeraWindows forums.

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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This article was posted in Portable Apps, Software Zone, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

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13 Comments

Addy

Sweet!
Can you give an insight how it works?
Tim Brazer

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.
Ritesh Kawadkar

Thanks Vishal for posting my software on your website. I am very glad to see this on your website.

This is to notify you that:
There are 2 more updates in this software, I have enabled pause and re-enable feature in it.
ExistenceGuest

nice
The Champ

Yo,this sounds too cool for me and now I'm going it to Bringin' it to my Hood
Mike

Frankly if you've let someone onto your system as an Administrator or logged on as you, then you deserve what you get.

The easiest way to handle all of this is to simply give everyone else a Limited Account so they can't delete any important files, and not give them edit (or even read) access to your personal files.

There are also free tools like this (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx) which give much more comprehensive results.
Nikolaj

Nice app.
Can anyone tell me why all my exe files in My docs got deleated when i update vista but not 7
Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

Pls, use regedit.
Pls, teach us using gpedit.msc in detail.
thanks.
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