How to Add or Remove Security Tab in File Explorer

By Timothy Tibbetts

on 06/15/2023

When you look at the properties of any file in File Explorer, you can access the Security tab. Here you can choose who has permissions for a file, including modify, read, write, and full control. If you'd like, we can remove the Security tab taking away the ability for users to change the permissions of files.

We can accomplish this with a registry edit or registry files, which simplify the process.

Download Add or Remove Security Tab in File Explorer and extract the two files.

Double-click one of the two registry files:
Security Tab - Remove in File Explorer.reg
Security Tab - Add in File Explorer.reg (Default)

Click Yes when prompted by User Account Control.
Click Yes when prompted by Registry Editor.

Click OK when prompted by the Registry Editor.

This tweak is included as part of MajorGeeks Windows Tweaks.

Advanced users can go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and create a New > DWORD (32-bit) Value named NoSecurityTab with a Value data of 1.

To show the Security tab again, you can delete the NoSecurityTab key or change the Value data to 0.

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