[Cialug] Win XP question

[Jeff Davis]

Come on now Kevin...
Bill knows you really DO want to
have that displayed on the screen.
You just THINK you don't.



Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> I think this is true; it can't be done. 
> I don't remember ever seeing anything related this in group policies. I
> was looking for a hack of some sort here. Maybe, some regedit magic I 
> haven't thought of, etc. This seems like an such an obvious feature, 
> I'm a little surprised it isn't there. It should look like this:
> 
> When logged in as Administrator when you open the "Safely Remove 
> Hardware" window you get the option to choose a device and "hide" 
> from other users. 
> 
> Oh, well. It's not that important so I'll move on.
> Thanks for the thoughts.
> 
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:37 -0600, Jeff Davis wrote:
> 
>>You can hide the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon,
>>but I don't think you can prevent something from
>>being displayed in the list.
>>
>>
>>
>>Kevin C. Smith wrote:
>>
>>>Anyone know who to hide a piece of hardware, so that
>>>it does not how in that "Safely Remove Hardware" list?
>>>I'm using a second SATA drive for storage and don't want a user
>>>to inadvertently disable it; which will happen I've done it myself
>>>while remove a usb thumb drive. I don't want to hide the whole
>>>thing; just the one drive. I've Google, but come up empty.
>>>
>>><!-- This is a Linux list so, humor at my expense here. -->
>>>
>>>
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