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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:00 am
Post subject: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restricted acce
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I started getting this message/alert at login stating "the administrator has
restricted access to the CD and DVD drives". And sure enough, if you go to
My Computer there are red "no" symbols (circles with a slash) over the CD,
DVD and floppy drives. I can put in a CD and the drive spins up and the
cursor even changes to indicate it's being accessed - but I can't do anything
else.
I haven't changed anything that I am aware of. There are two users and we
are both administrators. The same effect is on both accounts. Automatic
Updates is on. |
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Since: Jun 29, 2005
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:46 pm
Post subject: Re: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restricted acce [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Verify that the Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged on user only option is not turned on.
a. Click Start, click Run, in the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
b. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
c. In the right pane, under Data, if the value for allocatecdroms is 0, go to step 5.
d. In the right pane, under Data, if the value for allocatecdroms is 1, right-click allocatecdroms, and then click Modify.
e. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
f. Quit Registry Editor.
The above is excerpted from the following MS-KB article.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330135
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
"BradWilkinson" <BradWilkinson.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3A88B6AC-D635-4C23-A724-D569E0D23219@microsoft.com...
I started getting this message/alert at login stating "the administrator has
restricted access to the CD and DVD drives". And sure enough, if you go to
My Computer there are red "no" symbols (circles with a slash) over the CD,
DVD and floppy drives. I can put in a CD and the drive spins up and the
cursor even changes to indicate it's being accessed - but I can't do anything
else.
I haven't changed anything that I am aware of. There are two users and we
are both administrators. The same effect is on both accounts. Automatic
Updates is on. |
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Since: Jun 29, 2005
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:56 am
Post subject: Re: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restricted [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Brad,
What happens when you right-click on the CD drive and choose "open". Are the contents displayed correctly?
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Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
"BradWilkinson" <BradWilkinson.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:37FA6803-FFF1-4984-BF08-F47962FF913F@microsoft.com...
Thanks Ramesh.
I had already checked that the Security Setting to Restrict CD-ROM access
was diabled.
I checked the registry as you indicated and "allocatecdroms" is 0. So is
the one for "allocatefloppies".
"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
> Verify that the Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged on user only option is not turned on.
>
> a. Click Start, click Run, in the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
> b. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
>
> c. In the right pane, under Data, if the value for allocatecdroms is 0, go to step 5.
> d. In the right pane, under Data, if the value for allocatecdroms is 1, right-click allocatecdroms, and then click Modify.
> e. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
> f. Quit Registry Editor.
>
> The above is excerpted from the following MS-KB article.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330135
> © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
> Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com >> Stay informed about: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restric.. |
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:54 pm
Post subject: Re: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restricted [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Ramesh,
I found by searching the web that there were others who had this problem.
It seems that the Intel "Desktop Utilities" that comes with their
motherboards has a glitch that leads to this - not sure how. I removed the
program, and the drives are working correctly. Only now - the icons for the
drives are gone! Who knows how to fix that?
Anyhow, I appreciate your help. I just happened across the issue with
Desktop Utilities, and I have no idea what causes it to do this. I installed
it to monitor the temperature of the processor in this new computer I built
using the Intel 975X board. Everything has been awesome for about 6 months -
then this popped up.
Thanks again for your help,
Brad
"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
> Brad,
>
> What happens when you right-click on the CD drive and choose "open". Are the contents displayed correctly?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
> Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
>
>
> "BradWilkinson" <BradWilkinson RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:37FA6803-FFF1-4984-BF08-F47962FF913F@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Ramesh.
>
> I had already checked that the Security Setting to Restrict CD-ROM access
> was diabled.
>
> I checked the registry as you indicated and "allocatecdroms" is 0. So is
> the one for "allocatefloppies".
>
> "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
>
> > Verify that the Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged on user only option is not turned on.
> >
> > a. Click Start, click Run, in the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
> > b. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
> >
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
> >
> > c. In the right pane, under Data, if the value for allocatecdroms is 0, go to step 5.
> > d. In the right pane, under Data, if the value for allocatecdroms is 1, right-click allocatecdroms, and then click Modify.
> > e. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
> > f. Quit Registry Editor.
> >
> > The above is excerpted from the following MS-KB article.
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330135
> > © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
> > Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
> >> Stay informed about: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restric.. |
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:03 am
Post subject: Re: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restricted [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Brad,
See if the section "Resetting the drive icon settings in the registry" in the following article helps:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/driveicon.htm
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Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
"BradWilkinson" <BradWilkinson.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:67EB9A38-91D6-4F23-A3DE-A7A60B03CCA7@microsoft.com...
Ramesh,
I found by searching the web that there were others who had this problem.
It seems that the Intel "Desktop Utilities" that comes with their
motherboards has a glitch that leads to this - not sure how. I removed the
program, and the drives are working correctly. Only now - the icons for the
drives are gone! Who knows how to fix that?
Anyhow, I appreciate your help. I just happened across the issue with
Desktop Utilities, and I have no idea what causes it to do this. I installed
it to monitor the temperature of the processor in this new computer I built
using the Intel 975X board. Everything has been awesome for about 6 months -
then this popped up.
Thanks again for your help,
Brad
"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote: >> Stay informed about: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restric.. |
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:26 am
Post subject: Re: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restricted [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Ramesh:
Yes - that worked to restore the icons.
Thank you very much for your help,
Brad
"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
> Brad,
>
> See if the section "Resetting the drive icon settings in the registry" in the following article helps:
>
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/driveicon.htm
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
> Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
>
>
> "BradWilkinson" <BradWilkinson.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:67EB9A38-91D6-4F23-A3DE-A7A60B03CCA7@microsoft.com...
> Ramesh,
>
> I found by searching the web that there were others who had this problem.
> It seems that the Intel "Desktop Utilities" that comes with their
> motherboards has a glitch that leads to this - not sure how. I removed the
> program, and the drives are working correctly. Only now - the icons for the
> drives are gone! Who knows how to fix that?
>
> Anyhow, I appreciate your help. I just happened across the issue with
> Desktop Utilities, and I have no idea what causes it to do this. I installed
> it to monitor the temperature of the processor in this new computer I built
> using the Intel 975X board. Everything has been awesome for about 6 months -
> then this popped up.
>
> Thanks again for your help,
> Brad
>
> "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
>
> >> Stay informed about: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restric.. |
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:42 am
Post subject: Re: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restricted [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:13 am
Post subject: Re: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restricted [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Feb 11, 12:12 am, "Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ram....DeleteThis@XOX.mvps.org> wrote:
> You're welcome, Brad.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
> Windows® Troubleshootinghttp://www.winhelponline.com
>
> "BradWilkinson" <BradWilkin....DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messagenews:094EECD5-9EA5-4208-BDEC-174AB765D686@microsoft.com...
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> Ramesh:
>
> Yes - that worked to restore the icons.
>
> Thank you very much for your help,
> Brad
>
>
>
> "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
> > Brad,
>
> > See if the section "Resetting the drive icon settings in the registry" in the following article helps:
>
> >http://windowsxp.mvps.org/driveicon.htm
>
> > --
> > Regards,
>
> > Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
> > Windows® XP Troubleshootinghttp://www.winhelponline.com- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
I also have this problem. I have tried all of the suggested
solutions, and my drives are still not available. The CDROM drive has
the red "unaccessable" indicator on it. I deinstalled and reinstalled
it, and that did not work either. I cannot access it at all. This
all started happening on 3/2/07, a day in which a Microsoft standard
update included the following items.
4:33:23 pm Software Distribution Service 2.0
4:32:33 pm Installed Windows Defender
4:26:33 pm Software Distribution Service 2.0
I have also deinstalled Windows Defender
I also tried to restore to a piont prior to all of this, and the
system says there are no changes to restore to.
Please help.
Lauren >> Stay informed about: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restric.. |
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:06 am
Post subject: Re: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restricted [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Lauren,
This is what Brad posted:
<q>
It seems that the Intel "Desktop Utilities" that comes with their motherboards has a glitch that leads to this - not sure how. I removed the program, and the drives are working correctly.
</q>
Any chance that you installed this program earlier?
If not, check Device Manager for the CD drive status. Do you see any error codes there?
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Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
<laurenlion.RemoveThis@fctvplus.net> wrote in message news:1173208439.675553.18860@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
On Feb 11, 12:12 am, "Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ram....RemoveThis@XOX.mvps.org> wrote:
> You're welcome, Brad.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
> Windows® Troubleshootinghttp://www.winhelponline.com
>
> "BradWilkinson" <BradWilkin....RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messagenews:094EECD5-9EA5-4208-BDEC-174AB765D686@microsoft.com...
>
> Ramesh:
>
> Yes - that worked to restore the icons.
>
> Thank you very much for your help,
> Brad
>
>
>
> "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
> > Brad,
>
> > See if the section "Resetting the drive icon settings in the registry" in the following article helps:
>
> >http://windowsxp.mvps.org/driveicon.htm
>
> > --
> > Regards,
>
> > Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
> > Windows® XP Troubleshootinghttp://www.winhelponline.com- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
I also have this problem. I have tried all of the suggested
solutions, and my drives are still not available. The CDROM drive has
the red "unaccessable" indicator on it. I deinstalled and reinstalled
it, and that did not work either. I cannot access it at all. This
all started happening on 3/2/07, a day in which a Microsoft standard
update included the following items.
4:33:23 pm Software Distribution Service 2.0
4:32:33 pm Installed Windows Defender
4:26:33 pm Software Distribution Service 2.0
I have also deinstalled Windows Defender
I also tried to restore to a piont prior to all of this, and the
system says there are no changes to restore to.
Please help.
Lauren >> Stay informed about: Disabled CD-Rom, DVD and Floppy "Administrator has restric.. |
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