Guest users can no longer mount a USB drive after IE7 is installed. Requires Admin privileges. Huh?

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Guest users can no longer mount a USB drive after IE7 is installed. Requires Admin privileges. Huh?

 

Hey all, hoping someone has seen this and knows how to remedy it. I

recently migrated our lab machines from IE6 to IE7. The problem is

that now when a student user plugs in a flash drive, it requires Admin

rights to mount and use whereas before you plugged it in and it

worked. What the heck has changed to cause this to happen? I though it

was a group policy setting but when I turn off all policies, it still

asks for Admin rights to mount. Hope someone can help as this really

blows.

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest Anteaus]

RE: Guest users can no longer mount a USB drive after IE7 is installed

 

RE: Guest users can no longer mount a USB drive after IE7 is installed

 

Just a point, but turning off policies (as in removing the policy object from

the domain) leaves the computer's registry as it was when the last policy was

in force. You need to specifically revert the policy that prevented this.

[Guest J.C.]

RE: Guest users can no longer mount a USB drive after IE7 is installed

 

RE: Guest users can no longer mount a USB drive after IE7 is installed

 

I am having a similar problem and I’m not sure if it’s related to IE7 being

on the computers or not.

 

My environment is a public computer lab. I have pre-installed a handful of

USB Flash Drives on our master image. This seems to allow the vast majority

of students to come in and plug in most USB drives with no problems. What I

am dealing with is a small number of USB drives that will not install unless

I login as Administrator first. After looking at these drives I see nothing

special about them. They are using the same device drivers as any other

drive.

 

I have tried everything I can find online about this.

 

Granting Users Power User (Which I’d rather not do).

Granting Power User and Everyone Load and Unload Device Drivers rights.

Altering the permissions of the USBSTOR.* files granting everyone R/W/E.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions?