Paul said:
Could someone please post the GPEDIT policy to disable PCA (or if
possible, just the dialog box)?'
I've tweaked Vista into good working form, but on every boot, the PCA
dialog box comes up in the notification area warning me that Sonic DLA
driver is being blocked and disabled for being incompatible w/ Vista.
Add/Remove does not allow be to remove. Everything works fine, but if I
close the dialog box, another larger window pops up with the same
warning. Closing THAT window brings back the same dialog box in the
notification area and so on....and so on......for 10 or so turns until it
finally stops.
BTW, Sonic DLA also appears as disabled in device Manager and I've taken
it out of the start-up to no avail
There are several policies that can be used to tweak PCA. I haven't
experimented with them enough to know exactly which one is going to give you
the desired effect. You can download a spreadsheet containing info on the
policies available in Vista at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...9b-3328-4350-ade1-c0d9289f09ef&DisplayLang=en.
That being said, I recommend that work on getting Sonic DLA removed rather
than turning of PCA for everything via policy. Here are instructions from
the Sonic website on how to remove DLA:
1) Uninstall the current copy of DLAusing the "Add/Remove Programs," control
panel.
2) Delete the "DLA," folder from your Program Files folder. (By default this
is located inside: C:\Program Files\Sonic\)
3) Edit the Registry to remove entries relating specifically to DLA. (As a
precaution, please export any registry entries before deleting them.)
a. To start the Registry Editor, click on "Start," click on to "Run," type
"regedit," and click "OK."
b. Open the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" folder. (If this folder does not exist,
proceed to step f.)
c. Open the "Software" folder.
d. Open the "Sonic" folder.
e. Right-click on the "Direct Access" folder and select delete.
f. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Sonic.
g. Right-click on the "Direct Access" folder and select delete.
h. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID.
i. Right-click on the "{5CA3D70E-1895-11CF-8E15-001234567890}" folder and
select delete. (This data for the "Default," setting in this folder should
be "DriveLetterAccess.")
j. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products.
k. Right-click on the "29FE602138E2958RCABC02843CBCD76A" folder and select
delete.
l. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\
m. Right-click on the "VERITAS.DLAEventHandler" folder and select delete.
n. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID.
o. Right-click on the "{5CA3D70E-1895-11CF-8E15-001234567890}" folder and
select delete. (This data for the "Default," setting in this folder should
be "DriveLetterAccess.")
p. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes.
q. Right-click on the "VERITAS.DLAEventHandler" folder and select delete.
r. Got to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\MSConfig\startupreg.
s. Right-click on the "dla" folder and select delete.
t. Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\Handlers.
u. Right-click on "VxDlaCdOnArrival" and select delete.
v. Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
w. Right-click on the "{1206EF92-2E83-4859-ACCB-2048C3CB7DA6}" folder and
select delete.
4) Restart your computer.
5) Delete the "DLA," folder from the System32 folder. (This is located
inside: C:\Windows\System32)
