acecomp
06-04-2001, 07:34 AM
I administer School labs running WinNt v4.0 w/stns.
I may have misled some readers in a previous thread.
What I really need is to be able to stop students from opening the CDrom drives and inserting game cd's.
Even with System policy security installed, hiding system and cd drives, the students
can use ms word97's lookup feature (right click) to run/and copy what's in the cd drive to their folders.
I need to have students access the cd in the drive BUT NOT be able to remove and/or change it.
I have tried programs like Tweakui, Cdlock etc.. with no luck, and all they do is hide the drive letter
allowing students to type in "D:" in various programs "open" dialog box giving them access to the cdrom drive.
The problem I've got is not hiding the drive (I can do that with tweakui & other utils) but stoping
the students ejecting the intended cd from the drive (by pressing the cd eject button)
and inserting their own cd's, namely games.
What I need to be able to do is disable the eject functionality of the drive.
Now, I know you can open the cd drive while the pc is rebooting but they don't have the ability
to reboot, short of turning the power off and on again.
Unplugging the CDRom Drive's power cable, disabling the drive in CMOS are not options,
I need the drive to be accessed BUT NOT EJECTED.
Does anyone have any suggestions ???
Is there a registry hack to stop the cd ejecting??
If so, what can I do to simplify Enable/Disable Cdrom door???
Thanks in advance Ang....
I may have misled some readers in a previous thread.
What I really need is to be able to stop students from opening the CDrom drives and inserting game cd's.
Even with System policy security installed, hiding system and cd drives, the students
can use ms word97's lookup feature (right click) to run/and copy what's in the cd drive to their folders.
I need to have students access the cd in the drive BUT NOT be able to remove and/or change it.
I have tried programs like Tweakui, Cdlock etc.. with no luck, and all they do is hide the drive letter
allowing students to type in "D:" in various programs "open" dialog box giving them access to the cdrom drive.
The problem I've got is not hiding the drive (I can do that with tweakui & other utils) but stoping
the students ejecting the intended cd from the drive (by pressing the cd eject button)
and inserting their own cd's, namely games.
What I need to be able to do is disable the eject functionality of the drive.
Now, I know you can open the cd drive while the pc is rebooting but they don't have the ability
to reboot, short of turning the power off and on again.
Unplugging the CDRom Drive's power cable, disabling the drive in CMOS are not options,
I need the drive to be accessed BUT NOT EJECTED.
Does anyone have any suggestions ???
Is there a registry hack to stop the cd ejecting??
If so, what can I do to simplify Enable/Disable Cdrom door???
Thanks in advance Ang....