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Did he extract my hard drive information with his USB key under the guise of loading a Wi-Fi printer on my laptop?

Quivvy — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:36:59 +0000

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USB stick problem

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New iMAC

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Blocking USB drives or any removable media on Active Directory network

ITKE — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:51:15 +0000

Can I block the use of USB drives or flash drives or any removable media on our active directory network across the board. We are using group policy but I do not know how to configure it.

Determine Bluetooth Specification Versions Supported by your hardware

Pagan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:36:50 +0000

I understand there are a number of versions of the Bluetooth Specification, recently V2.1 with EDR and V3.0 and 4.0 perhaps on the horizon. How do I determine what versions are supported by my bluetooth hardware? (PC USB dongle or internal Laptop H/W) Can I test that my v2.0 or v2.1 device supports EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)? Are the version upgrades purely software/firmware, or are they hardware upgrades?

Strange USB behaviour

Mr786976 — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:07:26 +0000

My PCs been acting strangely for a while now. The issue is that when I plug in an iPod it appears in nautilus/windows explorer and iTunes for a few seconds and then disappears as if ejected.
This behaviour also exhibits itself sometimes when there is ‘noise’ in the mains. When I say noise, I refer to the disturbance caused by turning on a fan etc that makes an audio amplifier produce a popping sound.
I have tried different iPods, iPod cables, and even moving the PC to a different socket and different mains cable to no avail.
I’m guessing that the problem’s either the motherboard or the PSU.
The motherboard is an Asrock k10n78fullhd-hsli.
The PSU is a generic one that came bundled with my incredibly cheap case. Hmmm.

USB Switch Windows XP printers

Teicneoir — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:31:53 +0000

We have a temporary project and I need to connect a usb printer and a usb printer/scanner to 2 PCs that are running WinXP. It looks like I will need a USb switch and a USB hub. I would connect the PCs to the switch, the hub to the switch and then connect the printers to the hub. Has anyone done this before and are there any issues that I would need to look out for?

USB device issues

Ncalo2009 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:10:55 +0000

I am a green IT employee. And, have had an issue with several laptops not recognizing USB thumbdrives.
When the user inserts the thumb drive the system recognizes it but in “My Computer” it does not show up. But, when I go to “Device Manager” I see the device, re assign an available letter then it appears. This was not happening before and no it is. Is there something I can look or change to fix this annoying issue. I have looked in gpedit.msc to see if anthing looks obvious.

Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks,
NCalo

Blocking USB in Group Policy

Cool30 — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:12:09 +0000

hi, i would like to block some users from accessing usb, in group policy management, can you any one guide me plz, thanks in advance

Backup of encrypted data to USB device

BrentSheets — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:59:40 +0000

I’m using Ultimaco encryption software and I’m looking for any software/utility that can read files from an encrypted hard drive and copy the data to a USB device. I need to be able to do this for OS disaster recovery in the event of a crash. Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated. Thank you.

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