Strange bahaviour of my documents partition

[Guest]

Win xp pro sp1 is installed on my machine.
Two ntfs partitions are present.
One with system installation and one for all documents.
Two user accounts are defined. One administrative
for administrative tasks only
and one with restricted permissions for the all day job.
The documents partition and all directories on it are
set that way the user with restricted rights can fully
access them.
But I can observe some strange behaviour on it.
All folders have set the read-only attribute, but it is grayed-out.
This points some items of those folders are read-only what
I can not imagine. For a test purposes I created a new empty folder.
It is grayed-out read-only as well.
What is the cause ?
The simple file sharing is disabled.
It got known to me as I wished to test my autorun.inf file.
The autoplay functionality works correct for the cd/dvd drives
but not for the hdd-folders.
I had recently set in registry all occurances of appropriate key,
I do not remember its name now, to the value 0x41. This is, only
the unknown drives and foreign drives are excepted from the autoplay
functionality.
Why the explorer does not recognize the autorun.inf file if stored
to hard disk ? If stored to cd medium it does work.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

"Read only" as an attribute is ignored by Windows at the folder level, it
only applies to files. For why, read:

Unable to remove Read-Only attribute from folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=256614

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

What can be then a reason the autoplay feature does not
work with the hdd folders ?
In registry all occurances of the appropriate variable is set to 0x41.
Before was 0x91.
The CD/DVD mediums are auto played correct.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hdd's don't normally autorun .inf files (it'd be a disaster if they did).
What did you change in the registry thinking that they would?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Hdd's don't normally autorun .inf files (it'd be a disaster if they did).
What did you change in the registry thinking that they would?

I wonna test my autorun.inf file.
Better so as to have to burn testwise a stack of CDs.
The registry key set by me to the value 0x41 is NoDriveTypeAutoRun.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

For a hard drive to autorun an inf file, it'd have to be on the root. Why
not just get some software to create a virtual CD drive and test it that
way?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Hi,

For a hard drive to autorun an inf file, it'd have to be on the root. Why
not just get some software to create a virtual CD drive and test it that
way?

You are right. I can take the subst command from windows.