Windows Forum
My users have two ways to get into the c: drive currently. Triple clicking on the programs on the start menu or selecting the c: drive from a drop down for a folder they are mapped to.
Anyway to prevent this without having to lock down access to the c: drive. Just want to prevent browsing.
by p. dickason, cne, mcse, cca
yep. As long as the workstations are Win2k or above. It's in Group Policy. If you are on a windows 2000 domain, open the group policy for the OU the user is in and go to User Configuration | Administrative templates | Windows Components | Windows Explorer and look at policies 'Hide these specified drives in My Computer' and 'Prevent access to drives from My Computer'. Turn these on and programs will still run for C: but there is no way for the user to get there. Hope this helps.
Pete
by beermonster
Hi,
If you're users have office then unlucky. You can apply any restriction you like, but when they select open document, then type c:\*.* and hit return, they get the lot...
by aliz
Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 administrators can define drive visibility on a per-drive basis by using the NODRIVES entry in the registry.
The NODRIVES entry (reg_dword) located in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies \Explorer
Example: A bitmask of 10000000000000000000000111(0x7h)
The bitmask above hides local drives A, B, and C (rightmost bits from right to left) and drive Z (leftmost bit).
This discussion is closed to new replies.
Sort by Trending