How do i hide C Drive in windows 98?

[Guest glennboyde]

Hello all,

i'm having a little trouble in hiding the C drive in windows 98 using the windows 98 policy editor.

its a network of 100+ windows 98 computers for a school.

the current setup is as follows:

CATEGORY !!MyComputer

POLICY !!HideDrives

KEYNAME Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

VALUENAME "NoDrives"

;VALUEON NUMERIC 67108863 ;--All drives concealed

VALUEON NUMERIC 67108854 ;--All but A: and D:

VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0

END POLICY

END CATEGORY ; MyComputer

[strings]

HideDrives="Conceal Drives"

this hides all the drives in my computer apart from the a drive (floppy) and the d drive (cd rom)

what i want to do is to be able to show all possible drives but hide the c drive so the pupils cant get access to any of the system files.

we have purchasesd usb memory pens for them to use and take work home etc. problem is when they put in the memory pen they cant get to it 'cause the drives are hidden in my computer!!

I tried this but it didnt work:

CATEGORY !!MyComputer

POLICY !!HideDrives

KEYNAME Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

VALUENAME "NoDrives"

;VALUEON NUMERIC 4 ;--C drive concealed

VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0

END POLICY

END CATEGORY ; MyComputer

Your help is greatly appreciated =)

[eidenk]

Have you tried with TweakUI rather than with Poledit ?

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/dow...g/NTTweakUI.asp

RegtickPro (it's freeware) allows you to do many things Poledit does but in a much easier way. It does not help with hiding drive letters though.

http://regshot.blog.googlepages.com/regshot.html#h_regtick

[Guest glennboyde]

yeah i'll try that and see how it goes, someone told me that using tweakui only works for the current user though. i'll try anyway and see =)

[LLXX]

That's no way to prevent others from messing with the system. Drives are hidden, not inaccessible.

Better to install DeepFreeze or some other state-restoration utility instead.