Vista - 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 andy_c@xxxxxx

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.

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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\CurrentVersion\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.
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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Fonti" <Fonti@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.
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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?

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Fonti" <Fonti@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

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SS


"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote: