How to disable writing to USB pen drive?

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Ok..lets come to today's trick which says " how to disable writing to USB pen drive"

Most people have the habbit of stealing(copying) any information, resource they finds in their friends computer system.My friends have the same habbit ;) but now i have found the solution for the same.

Now you can disable your system to write any data to USB pen drive.

Lets start the trick...

Its a registry hack...so firstly you have to open registry editor (Type regedit in Run and ENTER)


Then Go to the below specified location: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
It will look like this

Now modify the value of WriteProtect to 1.Thats it.
Restart or log off the system to see the effect.
Now when you will try to paste any file to USB pen drive...it will show the notice as shown below.

Interesting trick ;)

Isn't it???
Ok..now to enable writing the data to USB device..just set the WriteProtect's value to 0 again.
Then restart or log off the system.This time data  can be copied to USB device :)


Note: Once you use the registry hack, you will have to reboot/ log off for the changes to take effect.

         One should also note that if you are using this trick, you should make sure that the users are not

         administrators because they could easily change this setting back.


So...thats all for now!!!


Have a good day :)


Take Care
  C@ndy


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