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From: John S on 30 Jul 2010 18:21
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:50:05 +0100, za kAT wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:38:53 +1200, John S wrote:

>>> From: "John S" <gorblimey(a)invalid.invalid>
>>>
>>>| Not sure if this is really a freeware question but hoping there might be a
>>>| suitable solution.
>>>
>>>| Operating systems - XP, Vista, Win7.
>>>
>>>| Want students (elderly folk) to be shown how to change the label on their
>>>| newly acquired flash drives so they can easily recognise them in dialogue
>>>| boxes, but do this when logged in to a user account which doesn't have
>>>| administrative rights.
>>>
>> snip..

> Hi,
>
> On Vista in 'Local Security Policy' mmc, there is a setting to allow
> interactive users to format ejectable media.
>
> Under Local policies > Security options.
>
> Sorry, I haven't time to check on XP, but if defined it may allow them to
> do what you want. You may also be able to apply via group policy.

Thanks,

That did the trick in Win XP. Under security options is setting:-

Devices - allow to format/eject removeable media

From drop-down list selected Administrators + interactive users.

Did this logged in as Administrator, then logged in as user and was able to
change volume name of a flash drive.

Now just have to check out computers with Vista and Windows 7.

Thanks for the tip.

Cheers,

John S
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