Disable all CD burning

You can use GPEDIT.MSC to disable Windows burning and use Nero BurnRights tool to restrict who can burn to CD.

http://www.nero.com/en/Nero_BurnRights.html

Why not just take out the burner and replace with just a cd-rom?

I agree with number 2, if for some reason you put burners in all these guys and have figured out it was a bad security idea. Remove the burners. I mam sure they would find a way around your policy if they have the hardware and are persistant enough.

Registry Settings

User Key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
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System Key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\

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Value Name: NoCDBurning

Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)

Value Data: (0 = Allow CDR, 1 = Disable CDR)

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/979/

Just make the users who have the cd burners users with less access. Do not let them load programs, use devices, you can set what you want for users as a administrator of that computer and the network. I have set up two users to only have access to two drives and no access to local hardware. They can login do thier work and save it, but can not save it to disk or cd and I have stopped them from down loading from IE. This was a problem for the two because they were down loading music and games.

Have you tried setting the file permission on the Nero directory?
Set only the users that you want to use Nero.
Remove everyone from the list.

Good Luck

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