disabling the CD/DVD writing in Vista Home Basic

We have purchased a Lenovo laptop with built in OS of "Windows Vista Home
Basic". Now, we want to disable the CD/DVD burning facility.

There is no gpedit or secpol in "Windows Vista Home Basic"; therefore,
suggest me how to disable the inbuilt CD/DVD burning facility. IMAPI is no
longer working as a service also (therefore I could not disable it in
Services).

I have already uninstalled all the third party CD/DVD burning softwares.

I have tried to change registry key as suggested by

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/316529

I have changed the drive type value to 3 to make it appear that the drive is
a standard CD-ROM and is not writable.

Despite all this change in Registry, DVDRW is still able to Write.

Please suggest how to make it DVD RW Drive to Read only.

--
SS

Fonti

The Group Policy setting for for disabling the CD Burning features does
this:
If you enable this setting, all features in the Windows Explorer that allow
you to use your CD writer are removed.

That policy changes the following registry Key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

With the 'Explorer' key selected, right click in the right side pane and
select New / DWord(32bit) Value.

Name this value: NoCDBurning (Case sensitive).
Right click the new value and select: Modify.
In the Value Data line, type 1 (one).
Click Apply/OK.

Let me know how this works for you.
--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Fonti" <> wrote in message
news:F4F07BD8-AF6D-42FF-9E95-...
> We have purchased a Lenovo laptop with built in OS of "Windows Vista Home
> Basic". Now, we want to disable the CD/DVD burning facility.
>
> There is no gpedit or secpol in "Windows Vista Home Basic"; therefore,
> suggest me how to disable the inbuilt CD/DVD burning facility. IMAPI is no
> longer working as a service also (therefore I could not disable it in
> Services).
>
> I have already uninstalled all the third party CD/DVD burning softwares.
>
> I have tried to change registry key as suggested by
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/316529
>
> I have changed the drive type value to 3 to make it appear that the drive
> is
> a standard CD-ROM and is not writable.
>
> Despite all this change in Registry, DVDRW is still able to Write.
>
> Please suggest how to make it DVD RW Drive to Read only.
>
> --
> SS

Dear Ronnie,

Thanks for your suggestion.

I did as you suggested, created the new Registry keys -----, it didn't work.

Please suggest how to disable the CD/DVD burning facility in Vista Home Basic.
--
SS


"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

> Fonti
>
> The Group Policy setting for for disabling the CD Burning features does
> this:
> If you enable this setting, all features in the Windows Explorer that allow
> you to use your CD writer are removed.
>
> That policy changes the following registry Key.
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
>
> With the 'Explorer' key selected, right click in the right side pane and
> select New / DWord(32bit) Value.
>
> Name this value: NoCDBurning (Case sensitive).
> Right click the new value and select: Modify.
> In the Value Data line, type 1 (one).
> Click Apply/OK.
>
> Let me know how this works for you.
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Fonti" <> wrote in message
> news:F4F07BD8-AF6D-42FF-9E95-...
> > We have purchased a Lenovo laptop with built in OS of "Windows Vista Home
> > Basic". Now, we want to disable the CD/DVD burning facility.
> >
> > There is no gpedit or secpol in "Windows Vista Home Basic"; therefore,
> > suggest me how to disable the inbuilt CD/DVD burning facility. IMAPI is no
> > longer working as a service also (therefore I could not disable it in
> > Services).
> >
> > I have already uninstalled all the third party CD/DVD burning softwares.
> >
> > I have tried to change registry key as suggested by
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/316529
> >
> > I have changed the drive type value to 3 to make it appear that the drive
> > is
> > a standard CD-ROM and is not writable.
> >
> > Despite all this change in Registry, DVDRW is still able to Write.
> >
> > Please suggest how to make it DVD RW Drive to Read only.
> >
> > --
> > SS
>

Hi Fonti

What do you mean by 'it didn't work'?

That registry key should disable all of the components in Vista that allow
you to burn a CD/DVD?

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Fonti" <> wrote in message
news:413A99A6-0A02-4877-8A78-...
> Dear Ronnie,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> I did as you suggested, created the new Registry keys -----, it didn't
> work.
>
> Please suggest how to disable the CD/DVD burning facility in Vista Home
> Basic.
> --
> SS
>
>
> "Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:
>
>> Fonti
>>
>> The Group Policy setting for for disabling the CD Burning features does
>> this:
>> If you enable this setting, all features in the Windows Explorer that
>> allow
>> you to use your CD writer are removed.
>>
>> That policy changes the following registry Key.
>>
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
>>
>> With the 'Explorer' key selected, right click in the right side pane and
>> select New / DWord(32bit) Value.
>>
>> Name this value: NoCDBurning (Case sensitive).
>> Right click the new value and select: Modify.
>> In the Value Data line, type 1 (one).
>> Click Apply/OK.
>>
>> Let me know how this works for you.
>> --
>>
>> Ronnie Vernon
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Shell/User
>>
>>
>> "Fonti" <> wrote in message
>> news:F4F07BD8-AF6D-42FF-9E95-...
>> > We have purchased a Lenovo laptop with built in OS of "Windows Vista
>> > Home
>> > Basic". Now, we want to disable the CD/DVD burning facility.
>> >
>> > There is no gpedit or secpol in "Windows Vista Home Basic"; therefore,
>> > suggest me how to disable the inbuilt CD/DVD burning facility. IMAPI is
>> > no
>> > longer working as a service also (therefore I could not disable it in
>> > Services).
>> >
>> > I have already uninstalled all the third party CD/DVD burning
>> > softwares.
>> >
>> > I have tried to change registry key as suggested by
>> >
>> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/316529
>> >
>> > I have changed the drive type value to 3 to make it appear that the
>> > drive
>> > is
>> > a standard CD-ROM and is not writable.
>> >
>> > Despite all this change in Registry, DVDRW is still able to Write.
>> >
>> > Please suggest how to make it DVD RW Drive to Read only.
>> >
>> > --
>> > SS
>>

Dear Ronnie,

I meant despite doing all the changes in the Registry, as per your
suggestion, one is still able to write through CD/DVD burner.

Please suggest.

--
SS


"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

> Hi Fonti
>
> What do you mean by 'it didn't work'?
>
> That registry key should disable all of the components in Vista that allow
> you to burn a CD/DVD?
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Fonti" <> wrote in message
> news:413A99A6-0A02-4877-8A78-...
> > Dear Ronnie,
> >
> > Thanks for your suggestion.
> >
> > I did as you suggested, created the new Registry keys -----, it didn't
> > work.
> >
> > Please suggest how to disable the CD/DVD burning facility in Vista Home
> > Basic.
> > --
> > SS
> >
> >
> > "Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:
> >
> >> Fonti
> >>
> >> The Group Policy setting for for disabling the CD Burning features does
> >> this:
> >> If you enable this setting, all features in the Windows Explorer that
> >> allow
> >> you to use your CD writer are removed.
> >>
> >> That policy changes the following registry Key.
> >>
> >> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
> >>
> >> With the 'Explorer' key selected, right click in the right side pane and
> >> select New / DWord(32bit) Value.
> >>
> >> Name this value: NoCDBurning (Case sensitive).
> >> Right click the new value and select: Modify.
> >> In the Value Data line, type 1 (one).
> >> Click Apply/OK.
> >>
> >> Let me know how this works for you.
> >> --
> >>
> >> Ronnie Vernon
> >> Microsoft MVP
> >> Windows Shell/User
> >>
> >>
> >> "Fonti" <> wrote in message
> >> news:F4F07BD8-AF6D-42FF-9E95-...
> >> > We have purchased a Lenovo laptop with built in OS of "Windows Vista
> >> > Home
> >> > Basic". Now, we want to disable the CD/DVD burning facility.
> >> >
> >> > There is no gpedit or secpol in "Windows Vista Home Basic"; therefore,
> >> > suggest me how to disable the inbuilt CD/DVD burning facility. IMAPI is
> >> > no
> >> > longer working as a service also (therefore I could not disable it in
> >> > Services).
> >> >
> >> > I have already uninstalled all the third party CD/DVD burning
> >> > softwares.
> >> >
> >> > I have tried to change registry key as suggested by
> >> >
> >> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/316529
> >> >
> >> > I have changed the drive type value to 3 to make it appear that the
> >> > drive
> >> > is
> >> > a standard CD-ROM and is not writable.
> >> >
> >> > Despite all this change in Registry, DVDRW is still able to Write.
> >> >
> >> > Please suggest how to make it DVD RW Drive to Read only.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > SS
> >>
>