Hide CD-Drive Letter?

[Guest Walter Primer]

I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have

created a separate account for him, since merely

giving access to the Guest account does not

allow internet access. I also want to be able to

hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from

My Computer/Explorer.

 

Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it

still shows up when I login under the other user

name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I

login as the other user since that program refuses to

allow those without Admin rights to use the setup

files.

 

How to handle? I don't see it in any of the Help files,

or mentioned in recent history hereon.

 

Thanks!

 

WP

[Guest 3c273]

Re: Hide CD-Drive Letter?

 

Temporarily make the user and admin, make your changes then change the user

back to restricted.

Louis

 

"Walter Primer" <wallyp@noemail.com> wrote in message

news:484e98f8.1922281@news.individual.net...

>

> I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have

> created a separate account for him, since merely

> giving access to the Guest account does not

> allow internet access. I also want to be able to

> hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from

> My Computer/Explorer.

>

> Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it

> still shows up when I login under the other user

> name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I

> login as the other user since that program refuses to

> allow those without Admin rights to use the setup

> files.

>

> How to handle? I don't see it in any of the Help files,

> or mentioned in recent history hereon.

>

> Thanks!

>

> WP

>

[Guest Walter Primer]

Re: Hide CD-Drive Letter?

 

"3c273" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>Temporarily make the user and admin, make your changes then change the user

>back to restricted.

>Louis

>

 

Sorry, I failed to mention that I tried that, but setup

still would not load the files. And, I put a link

to the Tweakui shortcut on the other desktop, and

it does show *some* of the goodies, but the

Drives under My Computer do not appear.

 

WP

>"Walter Primer" <wallyp@noemail.com> wrote in message

>news:484e98f8.1922281@news.individual.net...

>>

>> I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have

>> created a separate account for him, since merely

>> giving access to the Guest account does not

>> allow internet access. I also want to be able to

>> hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from

>> My Computer/Explorer.

>>

>> Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it

>> still shows up when I login under the other user

>> name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I

>> login as the other user since that program refuses to

>> allow those without Admin rights to use the setup

>> files.

>>

>> How to handle? I don't see it in any of the Help files,

>> or mentioned in recent history hereon.

>>

>> Thanks!

>>

>> WP

>>

>

[Guest Lisa]

Re: Hide CD-Drive Letter?

 

Try method 1 in this.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185/en-us

 

"Walter Primer" <wallyp@noemail.com> wrote in message

news:484fa74e.5591906@news.individual.net...

> "3c273" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>

>>Temporarily make the user and admin, make your changes then change the

>>user

>>back to restricted.

>>Louis

>>

>

> Sorry, I failed to mention that I tried that, but setup

> still would not load the files. And, I put a link

> to the Tweakui shortcut on the other desktop, and

> it does show *some* of the goodies, but the

> Drives under My Computer do not appear.

>

> WP

>

>>"Walter Primer" <wallyp@noemail.com> wrote in message

>>news:484e98f8.1922281@news.individual.net...

>>>

>>> I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have

>>> created a separate account for him, since merely

>>> giving access to the Guest account does not

>>> allow internet access. I also want to be able to

>>> hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from

>>> My Computer/Explorer.

>>>

>>> Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it

>>> still shows up when I login under the other user

>>> name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I

>>> login as the other user since that program refuses to

>>> allow those without Admin rights to use the setup

>>> files.

>>>

>>> How to handle? I don't see it in any of the Help files,

>>> or mentioned in recent history hereon.

>>>

>>> Thanks!

>>>

>>> WP

>>>

>>

>

[Guest Walter Primer]

Re: Hide CD-Drive Letter?

 

Thanks. Turns out the method suggested by

Louis did work. I needed to reboot completely

instead of just switching users (after making

the guest an admin) for the Tweakui program

to function.

 

WP

 

 

"Lisa" <prettyflower@aol.com> wrote:

>Try method 1 in this.

>

>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185/en-us

>

>"Walter Primer" <wallyp@noemail.com> wrote in message

>news:484fa74e.5591906@news.individual.net...

>> "3c273" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>>

>>>Temporarily make the user and admin, make your changes then change the

>>>user

>>>back to restricted.

>>>Louis

>>>

>>

>> Sorry, I failed to mention that I tried that, but setup

>> still would not load the files. And, I put a link

>> to the Tweakui shortcut on the other desktop, and

>> it does show *some* of the goodies, but the

>> Drives under My Computer do not appear.

>>

>> WP

>>

>>>"Walter Primer" <wallyp@noemail.com> wrote in message

>>>news:484e98f8.1922281@news.individual.net...

>>>>

>>>> I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have

>>>> created a separate account for him, since merely

>>>> giving access to the Guest account does not

>>>> allow internet access. I also want to be able to

>>>> hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from

>>>> My Computer/Explorer.

>>>>

>>>> Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it

>>>> still shows up when I login under the other user

>>>> name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I

>>>> login as the other user since that program refuses to

>>>> allow those without Admin rights to use the setup

>>>> files.

>>>>

>>>> How to handle? I don't see it in any of the Help files,

>>>> or mentioned in recent history hereon.

>>>>

>>>> Thanks!

>>>>

>>>> WP

>>>>

>>>

>>

>

[Guest 3c273]

Re: Hide CD-Drive Letter?

 

Actually, you just need to log the user completely out then log them back

in. Glad you got it sorted.

Louis

 

"Walter Primer" <wallyp@noemail.com> wrote in message

news:484db29a.2071140@news.individual.net...

> Thanks. Turns out the method suggested by

> Louis did work. I needed to reboot completely

> instead of just switching users (after making

> the guest an admin) for the Tweakui program

> to function.

>

> WP

>

>

> "Lisa" <prettyflower@aol.com> wrote:

>

> >Try method 1 in this.

> >

> >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185/en-us

> >

> >"Walter Primer" <wallyp@noemail.com> wrote in message

> >news:484fa74e.5591906@news.individual.net...

> >> "3c273" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> >>

> >>>Temporarily make the user and admin, make your changes then change the

> >>>user

> >>>back to restricted.

> >>>Louis

> >>>

> >>

> >> Sorry, I failed to mention that I tried that, but setup

> >> still would not load the files. And, I put a link

> >> to the Tweakui shortcut on the other desktop, and

> >> it does show *some* of the goodies, but the

> >> Drives under My Computer do not appear.

> >>

> >> WP

> >>

> >>>"Walter Primer" <wallyp@noemail.com> wrote in message

> >>>news:484e98f8.1922281@news.individual.net...

> >>>>

> >>>> I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have

> >>>> created a separate account for him, since merely

> >>>> giving access to the Guest account does not

> >>>> allow internet access. I also want to be able to

> >>>> hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from

> >>>> My Computer/Explorer.

> >>>>

> >>>> Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it

> >>>> still shows up when I login under the other user

> >>>> name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I

> >>>> login as the other user since that program refuses to

> >>>> allow those without Admin rights to use the setup

> >>>> files.

> >>>>

> >>>> How to handle? I don't see it in any of the Help files,

> >>>> or mentioned in recent history hereon.

> >>>>

> >>>> Thanks!

> >>>>

> >>>> WP

> >>>>

> >>>

> >>

> >

>

[Guest Walter Primer]

Re: Hide CD-Drive Letter?

 

Uwe Sieber <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote:

>Walter Primer wrote:

>> I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have

>> created a separate account for him, since merely

>> giving access to the Guest account does not

>> allow internet access. I also want to be able to

>> hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from

>> My Computer/Explorer.

>>

>> Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it

>> still shows up when I login under the other user

>> name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I

>> login as the other user since that program refuses to

>> allow those without Admin rights to use the setup

>> files.

>

>As mentionend by 3c273 you can do it by changing

>the accout to an admin, do the setting an change

>it back to restricted.

>But hiding the drive letter is quite useless.

>Only the Explorer is affected at all and the

>'protection' is cracked by just enting the drive

>letter into the Explorer's address line or into

>an open file dialog.

>

>My USBDLM service (USB drive letter manager) can

>assing (and remove) drive letters depending on

>many criteria, also the user name or its admin

>status. You need some settings in the INI file

>to achieve this for internal CDROM drives.

>By default USBDLM cares about USB flash and

>hard drives only. To let it deal with an internal

>CDROM drive we need so configuation lines more

>than usual:

>

>; letter D: for the admins

>[DriveLetters10]

>DriveType=CDROM

>BusType=ATAPI

>IsUserAdmin=1

>Letter=D

>

>; remove the letter for non admins

>[DriveLetters11]

>DriveType=CDROM

>BusType=ATAPI

>IsUserAdmin=0

>Letter=-

>

>

>

>Uwe

>

>

 

Interesting, thanks.

 

WP

[Guest Uwe Sieber]

Re: Hide CD-Drive Letter?

 

Walter Primer wrote:

> I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have

> created a separate account for him, since merely

> giving access to the Guest account does not

> allow internet access. I also want to be able to

> hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from

> My Computer/Explorer.

>

> Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it

> still shows up when I login under the other user

> name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I

> login as the other user since that program refuses to

> allow those without Admin rights to use the setup

> files.

 

As mentionend by 3c273 you can do it by changing

the accout to an admin, do the setting an change

it back to restricted.

But hiding the drive letter is quite useless.

Only the Explorer is affected at all and the

'protection' is cracked by just enting the drive

letter into the Explorer's address line or into

an open file dialog.

 

My USBDLM service (USB drive letter manager) can

assing (and remove) drive letters depending on

many criteria, also the user name or its admin

status. You need some settings in the INI file

to achieve this for internal CDROM drives.

By default USBDLM cares about USB flash and

hard drives only. To let it deal with an internal

CDROM drive we need so configuation lines more

than usual:

 

; letter D: for the admins

[DriveLetters10]

DriveType=CDROM

BusType=ATAPI

IsUserAdmin=1

Letter=D

 

; remove the letter for non admins

[DriveLetters11]

DriveType=CDROM

BusType=ATAPI

IsUserAdmin=0

Letter=-

 

 

 

Uwe