Guest users can no longer mount a USB drive after IE7 is installed. Requires Admin privileges. Huh?

[Thee Chicago Wolf]

Hey all, hoping someone has seen this and knows how to remedy it. I
recently migrated our lab machines from IE6 to IE7. The problem is
that now when a student user plugs in a flash drive, it requires Admin
rights to mount and use whereas before you plugged it in and it
worked. What the heck has changed to cause this to happen? I though it
was a group policy setting but when I turn off all policies, it still
asks for Admin rights to mount. Hope someone can help as this really
blows.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

 

[Guest]

Just a point, but turning off policies (as in removing the policy object from
the domain) leaves the computer's registry as it was when the last policy was
in force. You need to specifically revert the policy that prevented this.

 

[Guest]

I am having a similar problem and I’m not sure if it’s related to IE7 being
on the computers or not.

My environment is a public computer lab. I have pre-installed a handful of
USB Flash Drives on our master image. This seems to allow the vast majority
of students to come in and plug in most USB drives with no problems. What I
am dealing with is a small number of USB drives that will not install unless
I login as Administrator first. After looking at these drives I see nothing
special about them. They are using the same device drivers as any other
drive.

I have tried everything I can find online about this.

Granting Users Power User (Which I’d rather not do).
Granting Power User and Everyone Load and Unload Device Drivers rights.
Altering the permissions of the USBSTOR.* files granting everyone R/W/E.

Does anyone have any suggestions?