Thursday, September 9, 2010

enable/disable USB drives

Posted On at by fusion

USB drives have become very common today>it has lot advantage but,there are certain problems associated with it.These devices are the common carrier of viruses & worms which can create havoc in the system.when ever any usb drive is connected to system,it is automatically detected.It is done through  usbstor.sys driver.It automatically loads appropriate driver for the USB drive..our motto is stop this driver.

so, here is a way to stop USB device from getting detected.

This method is targeted towards enabling and disabling USB pen drives.(Has no effect on USB mouse or keyboard).

To block the to use of USB Removable Disks follow these steps:

Open Registry Editor.

In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

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