 Disable remote access to floppy drive
| Operating system |
windows 2000 / XP / 2003 |
| category |
security |
Because the floppy disk drive is a volume, by default it is shared as an administrative share on the network. By using this tweak, the floppy disk drive is allocated to the user as part of the interactive logon process and, therefore, only the current user can access it. This prevents administrators and remote users (and even the same user at a different computer) from accessing the drive while the current user is logged on. The drive is shared again when the current user logs off.
Steps for applying this Tweak
- Open your windows registry
- go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
- create or mofify the string value called "allocatefloppies"
- set value as 0 to disable this tweak and 1 to enable this tweak.
- Restart windows for setting to take effects.
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