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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Disable USB flash drives in Windows PC



Block the usage of USB flash drives but not affecting USB mouse or other peripherals that using USB port.
In that case follow the steps.
Start ->Run ->Regedit
In Regedit fint he key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000003

change the value of "Start" from : dword:00000003 to : dword:00000004 to deactivate,


Meaning of "dword"
3 for enable and 4 for disable.
This will affect even without restart the PC

After this, you can't see USB even in Disk management

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