Registry Hack to Disable Writing to USB Drives

Posted On Sunday, August 17, 2008 at at 10:13 AM by Ashish kumar  


Registry Hack to Disable Writing to USB Drives

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A common security concern at organizations is allowing users to plug in a usb flash drive, because they could so easily copy corporate data.

Since Windows XP SP2, you can disable writing to USB devices altogether using a simple registry hack.

Here it is:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]

“WriteProtect”=dword:00000001

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