Re: [ProgSoc] Can you kill a WinNT computer?

["nbsherid@nospam.acs.itd.uts.edu.au" <nbsherid@nospam.acs.itd.uts.EDU.AU>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, alister air wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, nbsherid@nospam.acs.itd.uts.edu.au wrote:
> 
> > Does this work? If you take out the drive letter on C with all the apps
> > won't they stop working? (ie. thru disk administrator)
> 
> No - hide it, don't remove it.  You're using ZENworks?  You've looked
> through the policies?

That only hides in explorer. I haven't tried the ZENworks policy, but the
NT policy for hiding all drives in explorer sucks pretty bad. If you have
a "Run..." dialog box prompt you can still bypass that *very*
easily, because you can just type the directory you want to go to or even
just a simple "\" to get the root directory of the drive containing the
winnt directory. Or equivalently "start \" from the command prompt.

I suppose it is useful to some degree though, because it would be hidden
in the win32 "explorer-style" dialog boxes but not the win16 "windows 3.1"
dialog boxes (ie. for open and save, etc).

>  
> If you're local, I'll get you access to NT 4 SP 5 if you like.
> 

I would appreciate that... especially if it saves me downloading it from
overseas and costing the university god-knows-how-much.

I can't find it on any of the servers here so I guess no-one in
Engineering is aware of it (?!?).

> Alister
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