----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 7:40 AM 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. Here's something from one of M$'s books (sample chapter online at http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6232a.asp ): "Hiding drive letters in Windows XP doesn't prevent users from accessing those drives through other means, including at the MS-DOS command prompt. This setting hides only those drives in Windows Explorer, the common dialog boxes, and so on. Thus, you can't rely on this as a security measure." I think to properly disable a drive in Windows of any form you'll have to figure out how the Device Manager disables hardware. The user can still enable it through the Device Manager, but they have to know that. After some testing on WinXP, it seems as if there is no single value change that will disable the drive ala the Device Manager. -- Corey Murtagh The Electric Monk "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
