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How do I control Access to Floppy Drives/CD-ROM drives?
John Savill
March 4, 1999
1 Min Read
A. By default Windows NT allows any program to access the floppy and CD-ROM drives. In a secure environment you may only want the interactive user to be able to access the drives and this is accomplished using the registry:
Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersionWinlogon
From the Edit menu, select New Reg_SZ type
To allocate floppy drives create a name "AllocateFloppies", to allocate CD-ROM drives "AllocateCDRoms"
Press enter, and then set the value to 1
Logout and login again
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