Pen Drive Restrictions On You
Computers Using Regedit
Notes: Before making anythings with Regedit better make up a full
Regedit backup. For Doing this open Regedit as given below and open File Menu
and click Export option and save it wherever you want. If anything you did
wrong in Regedit while editing its components after export
you could Imports it using Same File menu option with Import option and
select the already you have saved file (the file which you saved while you made
export option
Some people want to put security for other people accessing pen
drives to their systems.. If your using Windows XP SP2 or Vista
you can also use this method. By this other people able put them pen drives and
read them files or anything in to your systems but they not get writing
permissions. Just follow this method.
1) Open Run and the Regedit
2) Then look in your left side there you can see many folders.
Click folders only what i am mentioned below (Because if you changing anything
other then i mentioned, you will get some other problem for that i am not
responsible)
HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE —> SYSTEM —> CURRENT CONTROL SET —> CONTROL
—> STORAGE DEVICE POLICIES
(in CONTROL folder you cannot see STORAGE DEVICE
POLICIES folder so you should create it yourself. first Click CONTROL folder
then come to right side panel right click anywhere you will get New —> Key option
There type STORAGE DEVICE POLICIES. Thats all the Sub folder has been
created.)
3) And there right side of the panel right click and you can get NEW
—> DWORD value called Write Protection and set it 1.
4) Thats it. You can read USB drives file but not
wright to it any more.
5) If you want to remove them above method as your previous stage
you can do by following above first 2 methods and finally for the 3rd method
delete what you have created. (keep it in mind delete only the file you
have created if you deleted other files you will get serious problem)
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