Block USB drive in windows
Pallav Kumar Singh
20-01-2016 15:52:04
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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
    3.                  
                                  1_run.png (399×206)

  3. Go here "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR"
    4.   
                1_regedit.png (628×402)
  4. Here you can see "Start" REG_DWORD having data 0x00000003 (3). This indicates that your USB drive is unlock.
  5. To block USB drive change "Start" value to 4 by double click on that.
  6. Now your USB drive is blocked. Re-start your PC if it doesn't work.
  7. 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 

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

  2. To Un-Block USB drive change command with

    3. 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. 
Windows, OS,

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