Disable CD-ROM in NT 4.0?

[simoncox]

I am trying to find away to disable the CD-ROMS in all of my NT 4.0 workstations. I already run a service called floppy locker wich enables me to lock the floppy drives on NT 4.0 workstations, but although I have scoured the web there does not appear to be any similar products avalible for CD-ROM's. The only way I can think of would be to diable the CDFS service with a system policy, but doing this would require a reboot to enable the change. Does anybody know of a way of doing this? I am running NT Workstation 4.0 sp 6a128.

 

[thatrenowned]

* Go to Control Panel -> Devices
* Set the CDROM device startup as manual (or disabled)
* Reboot

Whenever anyone logs on, they'll have to start this device again but only administators can do that.

 

[simoncox]

Thaks for the suggestion, but I need to disable the cd-rom on 600 workstations, and a visit to each one is not really viable. I need some way of doing it with a system policy\logon script or a peice of software that I can install remotely.l

 

[TheLad]

If memory serves you can change the following via a REG file that can be added during login. The next time that the PC is restarted, the change will take effect:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom

change value to 00000004 (which should be disabled). Test it, see if it works! -----------------------------------------------------
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