Hide drive GPO not working??? 1

[Frankenherder]

I currently have hide these drives (C: drive) configured in the GPO. This works great from My Computer and Windows Explorer.
My problem is if you right click on the start menu and select explore, it takes you right to the C: drive in the users profiles and provides access to all of the C drive.

This GPO is supposed to prevent that drive being seen in Windows Explorer and My computer.

Any suggestions on how to stop this from happening?
Thanks
Matt

 

[acl03]

Why not add this setting as well, it's in the same spot as the policy you are currently setting:

Prevent access to drives from My Computer

I assume this is the one you are currently setting:

Hide these specified drives in My Computer

Thanks,
Andrew

Hard work often pays off over time, but procrastination pays off right now!

 

[Frankenherder]

THanks for the tip.

I had tried that setting as well but then it messed up some of our application and desktop settings from the All Users profile.

Matt

 

[Frankenherder]

Any other suggestions from anyone? Our main app has 15 exe files. It is a pain for users to go through Program Files 15 times to open them.

I want to have a folder on the desktop with shortcuts for the EXE's. With prevent access to drives prevents the users from entering the folder to launch the EXE's.

If i lock the toolbar so the context menus are not available, users cannot right click and close apps.

I ideally want to stop Windows explorer from opening by default to the users profile on the C drive when right clicking and selecting it from the start menu on the tool bar.

Any ideas?

Matt

 

[people3]

HI,

You can change the default location by editing the registry

using regedit

goto

CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec

Then modify the the %i and %I to the path you would like eg
[ExploreFolder("d:\newfolder", d:\newfolder, %S)]

I have not used this for a while so please test before using.

 

[Frankenherder]

Worked great! Thanks alot!

Matt