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How to Disable Access to your Pendrive in your PC
Recently one of my readers asked me how to disable USB storage devices on computers. Now I am going to explain how you can enable your USB drive to reject detecting any pendrive. This trick comes handy if you own a cyber café and your computers are prone of virus infected USB drives.
Also Read : Make USB Bootable
To disable the access to USB port, in windows Vista / XP follow the steps below
- Goto Start and click on Run and type Regedit, and then click OK.
- In the registry menu Locate and then click the following registry key:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesUsbStor
- In the right hand pane double-click Start as shown in the image below.
- In the Value data box, type 4 and then click OK.
- Quit Registry Editor and refresh your desktop.
You can re-enable your USB port to accept pen drive by following the same procedure and changing the value to 3.
Also Read : Portable Antivirus for USB Security
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This is an excellent solution for IT administrators who want to prevent USB access in their computer labs to minimize infection from a computer virus carried on the flash, perhaps even one that uses autorun to infect automatically without the user knowing. So this will prove to be a very useful solution for many who are heavily involved with tech.
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