Yes thanks seen those ones. The other day I installed a registry tool that tells you what changes were made tot eh registry. I disabled th floppy, and a STACK of changes were made....so hmmm. Put a question on Experts Exchange to see if anyone else in the wider community has done it etc.
Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 February 2003 08:08 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: Disable Floppy in Registry Hi Jeremy I tried the "nodrive" setting in the Registry (not that I know what I'm doing), but with no luck - didn't effect the floppy at all. I found 2 sites through google that may be of some interest. http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/faqs/Removable/rd_A_5.asp http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=cache:BSNYIxqSyq0C:www.giac.org/practic al/R aymond_Chan.doc+disable+floppy+registry&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Cheers Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Coulter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 3 February 2003 07:41 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: Disable Floppy in Registry Thanks for that Dave. I looked at the registry, but I don't have about 98% of these entries in my registry unfortunitly. My susspicoin is tho, the "NoDrives"=dword:01000000 is the line that will do it. I will have a look at my machine at work, and see if it has some of these entries. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 February 2003 06:45 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: Disable Floppy in Registry Hi Jeremy This is maybe a long-shot, but here goes. Where I work, they've installed a managed desktop system, which does things like bar you from accessing the floppy drive (among other annoying things). Someone in IT developed a reg file to run, which fixes the problem. So the following file re-enables access to the floppy among other things. If you can work out which line or lines are involved, then you can set the switch the opposite way and you will have barred access to the floppy drive. Good luck! ps. if you figure it out, I'd like to know how it's done. Here's the contents of the file called "Fix registry settings.reg": REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ac tive Desktop] "NoCloseDragDropBands"=dword:00000000 "NoMovingBands"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ex plor er] "NoDrives"=dword:01000000 "NoActiveDesktop"=dword:00000000 "NoActiveDesktopChanges"=dword:00000000 "NoNetHood"=dword:00000000 "NoCommonGroups"=dword:00000000 "NoSetActiveDesktop"=dword:00000000 "NoChangeStartMenu"=dword:00000000 "NoInternetIcon"="0" "NoDesktop"=dword:00000000 "NoRecentDocsHistory"=dword:00000000 "ClearRecentDocsOnExit"=dword:00000000 "NoClose"=dword:00000000 "NoStartMenuSubFolders"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ne twor k] "NoEntireNetwork"=dword:00000000 "NoWorkgroupContents"=dword:00000000 -----Original Message----- From: vss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 31 January 2003 16:25 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Disable Floppy in Registry Hi. Does anyone know how to disable the floppy drive via the registry tather than using the CMOS? Cheers, Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
