GPO Prevent access to drives from My Computer


  1. doeweb
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    Windows 7 Professional x64 and x86
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    GPO Prevent access to drives from My Computer


    I have an issue and cannot find an alternative. Using Active Directory Group Policy Management.


    Prevent access to drives from My Computer Restrict C drive only

    In Windows XP this policy works as expected.

    In Windows 7 this policy hides everything in the Users' profile "My Documents" and even when I changed it to c:\profiles.

    Odd thing is, if you save a document to the "Desktop", you can see the saved documents.

    If would like to find the alternative of this policy for Windows 7?
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  3. 2xg
    Posts : 2,377
    Win7 & Win8 64bit
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    Hello,

    See if you can follow this instruction. I've also attached an image, this is from Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise GPO.
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