Patent ID: 7739732
Filing Date: 2010-06-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a processor; a display; an operating system executable on said processor, said operating system providing settings usable to control access to a removable storage medium; and an executable application, separate from said operating system, said application provides a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display that permits a user to select a security setting from among a plurality of selectable security settings and that causes the operating system to implement said user-selected security settings to control access to the removable storage medium by configuring a start type for a driver associated with the removable storage medium; wherein the plurality of selectable security settings comprise graphical images that enable access to the removable storage medium, make the removable storage medium whose access is enabled read-only, and disable access to the removable storage medium; wherein the executable application causes an error message indicative of and to be displayed when, while the removable storage medium is mated to said system, a user selects the graphical image to disable access to the removable storage medium; and wherein the error message informs the user that a removable storage medium service is currently running on the system and that all removable storage media must be removed from the system.