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Disappearing ZIP & Floppy drives

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by bensil

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After recently disabling the ability to access context menus (right-click), NTWS machines have denied access to their internal ZIP and floppy (A:) drives. Will this require an edit of the .ADM file's drive map access variable, or is there a simpler way to restore the drives' visibility without having to give the users back the right-click. (This is in a school setting where the users were creating their own shortcuts to the command prompt, etc.)

If there's a better way to lock down the workstations, feel free to contribute your ideas.

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by kahana

There is a tool called "tweakui" that came with microsoft powertoys in win95. it is downloadable from tucows. most of the tweaks dont work with ntws but the disable drives does. the advantage and disadvantage is that it is very simple to use and cant be removed from the control panel after instalation.

by sixfourtykilo

Use POLEDIT - its free, comes with WindowsNT and 95 and will allow you to lock down the PC so hard that you can lock yourself out of POLEDIT.

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