Re: Allowing Users to Install Hardware Device Drivers

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Abid wrote:
I work in a school and teachers and students are expected to save documents
and files on USB flash drives. However, I have an issue where when the USB
flash drive is plugged in Windows tries to install device drivers for "USB
Mass Storage Device", "Disk Drive" and "Generic Volume". Obviously regular
users can't do this. I have tried going to:

secpol.msc > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment >
Load and unload device drivers > Add User or Group

However, the Add User of Group option is greyed out. All I have in the
Allowed Users is Administrators and Print Operators.

So is there anyway I can allow users to, in theory, add hardware? Or an
alternative solution to the problem?

Thanks

Using a new flash drive on a standard Limited User Account works fine
here. The drivers load like they are supposed to and all is well.

Are the installs failing? Do the flash drives not work? You could
change the account to administrator long enough to add the generic
device drivers, change back to Limited, and the flash drives should work.


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Travis
MayDay Computers
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