Non-Administrators Can Change COM Port Settings in Device Manager

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

SYMPTOMS

Within Device Manager (Devmgmt.msc), non-administrators can change COM port settings. This behavior affects only Windows 2000 Professional.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv kbui
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb