[G4] DISABLE DASHBOARD & question & the CD tray/eject button

[Laura Robinette]

Arrggghhhh.....   :( That's not the answer I wanted. :)
But I do know that I was able to do this last year on our older eMacs  
that were running 9.2.2. I disabled the usb device extension to  
accomplish this. Isn't there any way to do this in the Tiger system??  
:)



Laura



On Nov 15, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Tony Gamble wrote:

> Hi, Laura...
> 	Got this from the Apple Developer Connection:
>
> ""7) How do I disable the Eject Key?
>
> There is currently no supported way to disable the Eject Key. You can  
> however, prevent any new inserted media from being mounted. See the  
> section: "How do I prevent new media (e.g. CDs, DVDs, iPods,  
> USB/Firewire hard drives, etc.) from becoming mounted?" for more  
> details""
>
> 	For reference, it comes from this page:  
> http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2062.html
>
>
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 15-Nov-05, at 11:22 AM, Laura Robinette wrote:
>
>> This is something I've also been trying to figure out how to do since  
>> I work at a middle school. Thanks for asking, Frank & thanks for the  
>> answer, Tony. :)
>>
>> I have a related question that hopefully somebody can give me an easy  
>> answer to. Since I work at a school, on the same computers that I  
>> have the issue w/ dashboard, I also have been trying to figure out  
>> how to keep the students from opening the CD tray w/ the eject button  
>> on the keyboard. Is there a way to disable that function? I have  
>> eMacs running Tiger w/ logins using Simple Finder.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Nov 15, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Tony Gamble wrote:
>>
>>> Here's an actual widget that will kill Dashboard:  
>>> http://www.natal.be/index.php/2005/10/stopdashboard-widget/
>>>
>>> But then it starts right back up again when you hit F12, so in your  
>>> case, you'll probably want a more solid solution, and that involves  
>>> the terminal:
>>>
>>> http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/08/ 
>>> disabledashboard/index.php
>>>
>>> - Tony
>>>
>>> On 15-Nov-05, at 10:03 AM, Frank Sudore wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am the it manager at a company that is 100% Mac. (Like the Maytag  
>>>> repair man).
>>>> We are about to make the jump to Tiger and  need to limit access to  
>>>> certain users. Is there anyway to disable dashboard?
>>>> Any help is most appreciated.
>>>> frank
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