When the equipment we usually use both for work and at home, is shared by more than one person, we always run the risk of suffering some kind of mishap with the operation of our equipment, mainly due to ignorance on the part of the person who is using it.
The command prompt in Windows has always been one of the tools most powerful windows, a command prompt that if you don't have enough knowledge in unskilled hands, can cause serious damage to your computer. To avoid possible future problems, we can disable access to the command prompt.
Whenever our equipment is used by more than one person, it is best to create different user accounts, accounts that should not be administrators at any time so that they cannot make changes to the system. Once we have created the accounts, this is when we must proceed to deactivate access to the command prompt.
To carry out this process, we must access the Windows registry, so we must first be clear about what we are doing since otherwise we can make any changes that affect the integrity of the operating system.
Disable command line access in Windows 10
- To access the Windows registry, we must type Regedit in the search box on the start menu.
- Next, we go to the address HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Windows
- If the System folder is already created, we access it, otherwise we must create it and place ourselves inside it.
- Next we create a new 32-bit DWORD value with the name DisableCMD, Value data 2 and Hexadecimal Base.
Once we have created this new value, we just have to Restart the system so that the next time we start our computer, it no longer allows access to the command prompt.