I have built a mini pc for my TV just for watching movies emulators and such and was wondering if it possible to restrict access to everything else. Have other people using it and they are constantly copying huge folders to it just because they are to lazy to plug in their usb hdd when they want to watch something. To me its pretty impractical constantly writing deleting and rewriting something they already have onto another drive just so they dont have to plug a cord in when they want to watch something.
To simplify i want to disable writing anything from a usb drive without a password and also restrict everything else accept using current programs on there. I did make the drive write protected but that also prevents anyone from saving games and such on the emulators so this solution wont work. Ive tried making a limited user account but that doesnt seem to work either or im doing something very wrong. Any ideas on this would be great.
Also forgot to mention im running windows XP pro rather than windows 7/8 due to the minimal running requirements.
To simplify i want to disable writing anything from a usb drive without a password and also restrict everything else accept using current programs on there. I did make the drive write protected but that also prevents anyone from saving games and such on the emulators so this solution wont work. Ive tried making a limited user account but that doesnt seem to work either or im doing something very wrong. Any ideas on this would be great.
Also forgot to mention im running windows XP pro rather than windows 7/8 due to the minimal running requirements.
. Thats pretty much why i wanted to just disable usb writing without a password. Most things i find though disable writing to a usb though rather than other way around. 
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