Safely Remove Removable Device

[phillipmillward]

Does anyone know how to enable this for my pupils, at the moment I restrict access to the system tray, is there anyway of just giving them access to the safely remove removable media as they are complaining that pen drives are being broken.

 

Thanks

[ChrisH]

Is this on win 2k systems I assume? Only thing you can probably do is make sure everyhting but that is removed from the tray with reg hacks etc or find out what dll etc it points and create a shortcut to it.

[plexer]

Create a shortcut for them with the following?:

 

rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

 

Ben

[Midget]

I think I love you

[plexer]

steady on...

 

oh yes!!!!

 

Ben

[Guest]

steady on...

 

oh yes!!!!

 

I think you mean Steady Now.... Oh Yes!!! No no no no.

[Lee_K_81]

May not work depending on your security settings though. I think they need quite high access to use rundll32

[Midget]

I have just tested this and Lee is right, they don't have access to run the shortcut. Balls.

[Lee_K_81]

One of those few times i hate being right

[projector1]

is there one for showing the battery status on laptops? would be great as they can see how much juice is left.

[Midget]

is there one for showing the battery status on laptops? would be great as they can see how much juice is left.

 

Pull the battery out and check the chargebar?

 

 

....sorry.

[projector1]

how dare you! lol

the battery icon appears in the system tray but for users the tray is hidden!

[mac_shinobi]

To automate this, you can use deveject.exe available here (includes

 

C++ source code as well):

 

 

 

ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/listings/0316-208.zip

 

 

 

For help, run deveject.exe /? in a command prompt.

 

 

 

Works for Windows 2000/XP/2003.

 

Read me is included in zip file

[Midget]

tidy, works over a network too, i'll try it as a pupil later.

 

/me moves love over to gecko

[mac_shinobi]

lol

 

let me know if that works or even if you can give that exe relevant permissions for students to run to be able to safely remove the usb devices.

[webman]

/me moves love over to gecko

 

Don't penalise plexer just because you don't give students admin rights

[Busybub]

I have just tested this and Lee is right, they don't have access to run the shortcut. Balls.

 

Had exactly this problem ages ago...

 

You need to enable access to Control Panel for rundll to work.

 

You can hide all but one of the options in there by using another Group Policy to lock down .cpl files. Desk.cpl can be left, as the desktop options can be locked down elsewhere.