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At 12:53 PM 8/26/96 -0400, you wrote:
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>Bryan L. Scovill wrote:
>>
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>>         Speaking of the Policy Editor....  Has anyone tried writing their
>> own ADM files?  What I would really love to do is remove *SOME* of the
>> drives and not all of them.  I'd really like to be able to leave places for
>> people to save their work.
>>
>>         --Bryan
>>
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>
>Bryan-
>
> I haven't written my own ADM file yet; but, I have modified a default .adm
file
>drives.  Here's how...
>
> Look for the following line in the admin.adm file:
>
>   VALUEON NUMERIC 67108863 ; low 26 bits on (1 bit per drive)
>
> Now the fun begins...Open up calculator and enter 67108863 in and convert
it to
>that it translates to 26 1's.  And those 26 1's represent, you guessed it,
drive
>to throw you off, they made the order of the drives from Z to A.
>
> So, for example, say you wanted to hide everything but the A drive.
Change the
>1's into a "0" and convert that binary number back into decimal (it should
be 67
>number into your admin.adm file and select the Hide Drives in My Computer
policy
>everything but the A drive.  Get real slick and you can modify the String
in adm
>A Drive" or something to that effect.  The punchline to all this binary <->
deci
>stored in the registry for this policy is a hex value.
>
> I admit it's kind of crude, but it really does work.  Beware you can still get
>window.
>
>Mike Altimus
>mike.altimus@asu.edu
>Senior Systems Analyst
>Information Technology
>Arizona State University East
>

I've written and modified a couple of ADM files, and like Mike mentioned, it
is by no means fun, but allows for a lot more flexibility when using the
System Policies.  A good starting point is the Win95 Resource Kit.  There is
a brief summary of the ADM functions and strings.  I just started with a
copy of the default admin.adm file and hacked away at it until I ended up
with what I wanted.

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