Restrict Usage Of USB Removable Disks

Portable USB flash drives are indeed very handy, but they can also be used to upload malicious code to your computer either deliberately or by accident or to copy confidential information from your computer and take it away. In that case if you want to restrict usb removable disk access than do the following:

To block your computer's ability to use USB Removable Disks follow these steps:

1. Open Registry Editor.
2. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR

1. Locate the following value (DWORD):

Start and give it a value of 4. Note: As always, before making changes to your registry you should always make sure you have a valid backup. In cases where you're supposed to delete or modify keys or values from the registry it is possible to first export that key or value(s) to a .REG file before performing the changes.

1. Close Registry Editor. You do not need to reboot the computer for changes to apply.

Enable usage of USB Removable Disks

To return to the default configuration and enable your computer's ability to use USB Removable Disks follow these steps:

1. Go to the registry path found above.

1. Locate the following value:

Start and give it a value of 3. You can download a .REG file that configure this setting right HERE (1kb).

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