Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Prevent Users from writing to USB drives.

The following registry setting will prevent writing to usb in windows xp.

Open registry Editor by typing REGEDIT in run command.

Expand:-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l Add a new key and name it "StorageDevicePolicies".

In the window on the right then create a new DWORD value and label it WriteProtect, give it a value of "1" and users can no longer write to USB drives.

Giving a value of "0" will allow to write again.Enjoy !!

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