Restrict USB pen drive access on XP networks

To disable this function, you must deny access to the "System" built-in user group for the XP machine.

However, on large networks, changing the permissions for these two files on each individual machine is a hassle. However, you can easily incorporate these permissions into your log-on ...

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Now any new USB pen drives connected to the PCs will not be automatically installed. To enable access, you will have to change the n's in the script to f's.

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