Hide CD-Drive Letter?

[Walter Primer]

I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have
created a separate account for him, since merely
giving access to the Guest account does not
allow internet access. I also want to be able to
hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from
My Computer/Explorer.

Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it
still shows up when I login under the other user
name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I
login as the other user since that program refuses to
allow those without Admin rights to use the setup
files.

How to handle? I don't see it in any of the Help files,
or mentioned in recent history hereon.

Thanks!

WP

 

[3c273]

Temporarily make the user and admin, make your changes then change the user
back to restricted.
Louis

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have
created a separate account for him, since merely
giving access to the Guest account does not
allow internet access. I also want to be able to
hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from
My Computer/Explorer.

Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it
still shows up when I login under the other user
name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I
login as the other user since that program refuses to
allow those without Admin rights to use the setup
files.

As mentionend by 3c273 you can do it by changing
the accout to an admin, do the setting an change
it back to restricted.
But hiding the drive letter is quite useless.
Only the Explorer is affected at all and the
'protection' is cracked by just enting the drive
letter into the Explorer's address line or into
an open file dialog.

My USBDLM service (USB drive letter manager) can
assing (and remove) drive letters depending on
many criteria, also the user name or its admin
status. You need some settings in the INI file
to achieve this for internal CDROM drives.
By default USBDLM cares about USB flash and
hard drives only. To let it deal with an internal
CDROM drive we need so configuation lines more
than usual:

; letter D: for the admins
[DriveLetters10]
DriveType=CDROM
BusType=ATAPI
IsUserAdmin=1
Letter=D

; remove the letter for non admins
[DriveLetters11]
DriveType=CDROM
BusType=ATAPI
IsUserAdmin=0
Letter=-



Uwe

 

[Walter Primer]

Temporarily make the user and admin, make your changes then change the user
back to restricted.
Louis

Sorry, I failed to mention that I tried that, but setup
still would not load the files. And, I put a link
to the Tweakui shortcut on the other desktop, and
it does show *some* of the goodies, but the
Drives under My Computer do not appear.

WP

 

[Lisa]

Try method 1 in this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185/en-us

 

[Walter Primer]

Thanks. Turns out the method suggested by
Louis did work. I needed to reboot completely
instead of just switching users (after making
the guest an admin) for the Tweakui program
to function.

WP

 

[3c273]

Actually, you just need to log the user completely out then log them back
in. Glad you got it sorted.
Louis

 

[Walter Primer]

I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have
created a separate account for him, since merely
giving access to the Guest account does not
allow internet access. I also want to be able to
hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from
My Computer/Explorer.

Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it
still shows up when I login under the other user
name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I
login as the other user since that program refuses to
allow those without Admin rights to use the setup
files.

As mentionend by 3c273 you can do it by changing
the accout to an admin, do the setting an change
it back to restricted.
But hiding the drive letter is quite useless.
Only the Explorer is affected at all and the
'protection' is cracked by just enting the drive
letter into the Explorer's address line or into
an open file dialog.

My USBDLM service (USB drive letter manager) can
assing (and remove) drive letters depending on
many criteria, also the user name or its admin
status. You need some settings in the INI file
to achieve this for internal CDROM drives.
By default USBDLM cares about USB flash and
hard drives only. To let it deal with an internal
CDROM drive we need so configuation lines more
than usual:

; letter D: for the admins
[DriveLetters10]
DriveType=CDROM
BusType=ATAPI
IsUserAdmin=1
Letter=D

; remove the letter for non admins
[DriveLetters11]
DriveType=CDROM
BusType=ATAPI
IsUserAdmin=0
Letter=-



Uwe

Interesting, thanks.

WP