winwinwin Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 (edited) Hello,Does anyone know how to prevent in XP installing any new hardware ?I have found very good tip but for Vista and above:Policy called "Device installation restriction"http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Bes...-Part11744.htmlMaybe some other method ?Please help.Thanks Edited June 15, 2008 by winwinwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrofLuigi Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 (edited) You mean something like THIS? *Edit: I don't know if it actually stops the installation, I had never used it (because I didn't need to). GL Edited June 15, 2008 by GrofLuigi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winwinwin Posted June 15, 2008 Author Share Posted June 15, 2008 No, I meant disable hardware installaton as i understood well tip you gave me explain how to disable prompting only by baloon tooltipsTutor from my link for Vista explain how to disable any new hardware install after it will be plugged.Maybe is this possible anyway for auto install because I'm afraid XP PRO haven't got such feature at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhatcc Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Run > Devmgmt.msc > find the installed hardware, right click and click disablethat should silence the repeating prompts to install drivers for the new hardware if that was what you were asking... or if its something you can remove pop the case open and pull it out :-DSomething Funny: Im running Xubuntu atm and when reading this question i was trying to click run and type in devmgmt.msc but couldnt find run lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleg_II Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Rename NEWDEV.DLL to something like - NEWDEV.ORG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winwinwin Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 oh god what answers ?!Have all of you read my post especially link ?I mean prevent from installing new hardwareI'm afraid you need example as simple as that.You plugging ( first time ) some usb flash pendrive in this moment windows automaticly will install universal drivers for it as removable drive.In Vista there is admin option to forbid installing any new hardwareThat's what i mean.Oleg_IIYour answer for now looks most reasonable however it's little hardcore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oleg_II Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Script it: make one script for renaming the file to something else, the other one (when you want autodetect and install new devices) renames it back to the original name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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