Protect your data! Deactivate USB storage
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Nowadays, USB storage is very popular and cheap. No doubt USB thumb drive give us many convenience, but it can also be used by data thieves to leak sensitive information. Worst case is others might
spread virus into your computer without your knowledge! I had this bad experience. 
How to protect data?
Goto Start, Run, type “regedit” then click OK. You must have administrative rights to run regedit tool.
To Disable:
In Registry, browse to ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Currentcontrolset\Services\Usbstor‘
-Double click DWord value ‘Start‘ and set to 4.
-Export the USBSTOR folder as DisableUSB.reg
To Enable:
In Registry, browse to ‘Hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\Usbstor‘
-Double click DWord value ‘Start‘ and set to 3.
-Export the USBSTOR as EnableUSB.reg
To make it easy, I have export the reg files accordingly. You might want to download and use at your own risk! 
Download it and save it somewhere. To use it, just double click on the .reg file and click YES.
It is the best to store them into a hidden or restricted folder. Now you could prevent external USB storage without your knowledge. This also protect your computer from unnessacery virus spread via USB sticks, which are very common nowadays.
So what are you waiting for? Act now for better security!
PS: Please extra careful when tweak registry or your Windows might corrupt!
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