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My company recently decided to remove access to floppy drive. We run an NT workstation/server network. How can I configure a system policy to prevent most users from using their floppy disk drives?
I have installed poledit on the server, but I can't seem to find the option to hide floppy drives. Please help.
by erikdr
With W2K Pro it is in the policy.
With NT Workstation it isn't. However MS has an alternative: the device driver FLOPLOCK.SYS can be added to each workstations startup, and does this blocking. The driver is in the MS NT Workstation resource kit.At your service,
- The Netherlands
by nkky
by tamj123
don't know how thought policy edit, but this is how you done on stand alone workstation:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
add this key:
NoDrives REG_DWORD
The low order (right most) bit is driveA: while the 26th bit is Drive Z:
To hide a drive, turn on its' bit. These drives will still appear in File Manager. To remove File Manager, delete winfile.exe.
If your not happy working in Hex, add these decimal number to hide the drive(s):
A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863
by nkky
by ann777
On library computers, we actually went into the computer and unplugged the floppy drives from the power cord. When we needed access, we added power again. That may be a physical option for you.
You may also be able to disable floppy drives inthe bios, depending on how "technical" your users are.
by nkky
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