Does anyone know how to disable plug and play and/or the installation of new
PnP Devices?

Jesse Schulman
Network Group
NJ State Parol Board

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:42:33 -0500, "Jesse Schulman"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Does anyone know how to disable plug and play and/or the installation of new
>PnP Devices?
>
>Jesse Schulman
>Network Group
>NJ State Parol Board
>
Schulman-2-Schulman:

Verify that you have installed the latest revisions for your computer's BIOS or
firmware configuration software. Go into the bios and set load Fail safe
defaults or Bios defaults, disable any antivirus protection inside the bios, and
set Plug and Play OS to NO





Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:42:33 -0500, "Jesse Schulman"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Does anyone know how to disable plug and play and/or the installation of new
>PnP Devices?
>
>Jesse Schulman
>Network Group
>NJ State Parol Board
>

You could also try:

1. Start / Run / Services.msc / OK.
2. Double-click Plug and Play.
3. Set the Startup type to Disabled.
4. STOP the service.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:42:33 -0500, "Jesse Schulman"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Does anyone know how to disable plug and play and/or the installation of new
>PnP Devices?
>
>Jesse Schulman
>Network Group
>NJ State Parol Board
>

If disabling the Plug and Play service works for you, use tip 4195 in the 'Tips
& Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com to disable the Plug and Play service
by setting the Start value in tip 324 to 4 on all your workstations.

If your users are local admins (I doubt it), you can set the Start Value to 4
by using regedit /s pnp.reg in a login script.

pnp.reg would contain:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PlugPlay]
"Start"=dword:00000004




Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

Well I tried this and for some reason my machine took like 20 minutes to
boot. Not sure why, but I will try it on another machine and see if the
result is the same.

"Jerold Schulman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:42:33 -0500, "Jesse Schulman"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know how to disable plug and play and/or the installation of
new
> >PnP Devices?
> >
> >Jesse Schulman
> >Network Group
> >NJ State Parol Board
> >
>
> If disabling the Plug and Play service works for you, use tip 4195 in the
'Tips
> & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com to disable the Plug and Play service
> by setting the Start value in tip 324 to 4 on all your workstations.
>
> If your users are local admins (I doubt it), you can set the Start Value
to 4
> by using regedit /s pnp.reg in a login script.
>
> pnp.reg would contain:
>
> REGEDIT4
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PlugPlay]
> "Start"=dword:00000004
>
>
>
>
> Jerold Schulman
> Windows: General MVP
> JSI, Inc.
> http://www.jsiinc.com