Also, if the user has selected a program to view media on the USB drive previously "like photo viewer, etc..." and checked the "always" box, that could be what's wanting to run whenever a key is plugged in...
-sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 5:07 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: can't mount usb drives without admin permissions > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Miguel Gonzalez > <miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es> wrote: > > It seems that is doing this for EVERY USB dongle that > > is plugged in, not just with one particular model... > > But you can still see the files on the drive after clicking cancel, > eh? Strange. > > I've seen a similar initial symptom before: If a USB flash drive has > never been plugged into the computer before, then Windows has to do an > "Add New Hardware" thingy for the USB mass storage driver itself. > That didn't want to run without admin rights, so no USB flash drive > would work. Do it once as an admin and the problem went away. > Haven't seen it on all computers, so something else must have been > going on, too, but that was how it played out. But until that fix was > done, then the USB flash drive wasn't usable at all. > > Maybe run a thorough malware scan on the problem PC? Malware can > cause all manner of weird stuff. > > Also check one of the flash drives in another PC to make sure it's > blank. If needed, FDISK and format it to make sure you've got a known > good. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
