I am currently having a problem enabling a CD rom and USB drive on a work machine.
Some background - Because of the sensitive data within the workplace, by default, all USB and CD drives are locked down.
There is no provisioning server that pushes out scripts to do this.
I have tried the following. -regedit, H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Current Control Set > Servers > USBStor/CDROM, and changing the specific value to the correct number (it was infact already on 4).. -MMC snap-in - adding the local group policy, and then ensuring that USB mass storage is enabled (it wasn't disabled) -Device Manager - here is where it gets tricky. If I Insert removeable media, I can see it in device manager, showing as disabled, when I rick click and enable, it enables for two seconds (so that I get a pop up asking if I would like to view files on the USB etc) and then quickly flashes back to disabled
Is there anything I am doing wrong that you can think of? Is there a way to do this from the command line to override all of these settings?
I have admin privalages, and a good few machines on the network have USB and CD rom enabled, but they have absolutely no difference in settings (except in device manager of course, where the drives do not show as disabled)..
Any help appreciated, close to pulling my hair out here