Thursday, May 20, 2010

CD Burning with limited accounts.... again

I posted a while back about allowing non-admin users to burn CD/DVDs.  I ran into a machine today that wouldn't respond to the registry fix and I was working remotely so I didn't want to mess with the Nero BurnRights utility (because it has to install and requires a reboot).  So I got to digging around again and came up with another fix.  It's called BurnRights (just like the Nero utility, but it's not the same one).  It's put out by a company called Poikosoft.  Strangely, I wasn't able to get the file directly from their site.  They reference it in the help section and even link to their download page from the help section but the file isn't listed.  A bit of Googling will find it on some of the software download sites and I was able to download it from there.  After running it through a couple of virus scanners to make sure it was legit, I gave it a try.  It has a really simple interface (see pic below), double-click to run the program, click on your drive (if you have more than one), and click OK to let it work it's magic. That's 3-4 clicks depending on your setup.  The best part is that NO reboot was needed and NO installation was required