Block USB drive in windows

Here you can learn about, how to block USB drive of any windows PC.

Follow these simple steps:


Block USB Drive:

1st way

  1. Go to run or press Windows+R key from keyboard.
  2. Type regedit

                 
                          
1_run.png (399?206)

Go here "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR"   
        
1_regedit.png (628?402) Here you can see "Start" REG_DWORD having data 0x00000003 (3). This indicates that your USB drive is unlock. To block USB drive change "Start" value to 4 by double click on that. Now your USB drive is blocked. Re-start your PC if it doesn't work. To un-block USB Drive change value 4 to 3.There is another simple way to do this. Put all this in a batch file and run that.

2nd way

  1. create a batch (.BAT) file and edit it with 


reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR" /f /v "Start" /t REG_DWORD /d "4"

To Un-Block USB drive change command with
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR" /f /v "Start" /t REG_DWORD /d "3"

This is very useful idea where there is security a major concern. 

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