Stop virus infection/entry in your USB drive
This trick is very useful if you have the virus in their computer and want to copy files from a USB drive, but not want to transfer the virus to the USB. How to disable the USB writing option:
- To edit the registry of your computer, you must first register the computer with administrative rights.
- First click on Start button and type “Regedit” in Run option.(win key+R)
- Here locate the location to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl
- Here in right side panel, click right to create a key with the name “StorageDevicePolicies”.
- Now in left side panel, select “StorageDevicePolicies” key, again right click to create new DWORD value then label it “WriteProtect”. Set its value to “1″. But again to enable writing, set its values to “0″.
Now close the registry editor and restart your computer
after any changes to go into effect.
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July 15, 2013 at 8:49 PM
this can be a really helpful thing, so many of our devices depend on these now. I found a great USB 3.0 Hub to help me manage all my stuff, and now this makes sure they stay safe