Saturday, 1 February 2014

Enable or Disable CD/DVD drive in windows.

To enable or disable CD/Dvd drive, Here are the few step.

Through Gpedit:
1. Open gpedit.msc through run.
2. Navigate to User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Removable Storage Access.
3. On the right pane click "All Removable Storage Classes:Deny all access"
4. Inorder to enable it chose disable and viceversa. (By default it will be as "Not Configured" which means it is enable)

Through Device Management:
1. Open devmgmt.msc through run.
2. Scroll down to DVD/CD-ROM Drives.
3. Select the drive on which you want to disable and click the icon which is present on the top.

Through Registry Editor:
1. Open regedit through run.
2. Navigate to the paths:
 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Class\\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318
3. Inorder to disable delete the keys "Upper Filters" and "Lower Filters"

This may or may-not require reboot.


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