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Disable floppy drive thru' the Registry

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by happy 1 view

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Is it possible to disable the floppy drive through the registry on NT4 Workstation or/and NT4 Server ?

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by johnd

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

AllocateFloppies is type REG_SZ
0 (default) Floppy disks in the floppy disk drive can be accessed by all administrators in the domain.
1 Only the user logged on locally can access data on the floppy disks in the floppy disk drive.
Note: Since the Floppy is a volume, it has an administrative share. Setting this entry to 1 makes the share unavailable while the current user is logged on.

by roland63

Wouldn't it be easier to disable it or unplug it from the MoBo?

Messing with the registry....I dunno....

by happy

True.But this would involve sending an
engineer to the customers site if they needed it to be switched back on. Thanks for the reply.

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