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How often have you witnessed blocked Pen drive or USB drive access in your workplace or college or school? I believe many times; in fact, every time you try to use the USB drive, you are not allowed, simply because the administrator has disabled USB drive detection on your Windows 10/8/7 system. Again, how often has your data been stolen because someone connected an unauthorized USB to your computer and copied your files? Well, you don’t need to worry because the solution to disable or enable USB Ports is pretty simple.
Restrict access to USB drives
There are five ways an administrator can prevent using of USB Drives
They are:
Sep 21, 2017 Method 1 of 5. Enable or disable USB drives in Windows 10 via Registry. If you are comfortable making changes to Windows Registry, you can enable or disable USB drives in Windows 10 by manually editing the Registry. Apr 17, 2018 Assume that you want to prevent users from connecting to a USB storage device that is connected to a computer that is running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows 2000. This article discusses two methods that you can use to do this. Do you know that it is very easy to Enable or Disable USB write protection in Windows 10? And here in this article, you will read all the possible ways with step by step guide on how to do that. Write protection is kind of security feature that prevents the content of the USB drive being changed. How to Disable the Use of USB Storage Devices in Windows 10. If you want to prevent others from copying important materials/files from your computer through USB storage devices, it’s a good idea to disable the use of USB storage devices on your computer.
Jun 27, 2018 In Windows, starting from Windows 7 / Vista, you can flexibly manage access to external drives (USB, CD / DVD, floppy, tape etc.) using Group Policies. You can programmatically block the use of USB drives, without affecting such USB devices as a mouse, keyboard, printer, etc. Disable USB Drives. You can do this on both Windows 10 Pro and on Windows 10 Home. On Windows 10 Pro, you will have to go through the Group Policy Editor, and on Windows 10 Home, you need to go through the registry editor.
- Altering registry values for USB Mass Storage Devices.
- Disabling USB Ports from Device Manager.
- By Uninstalling the USB Mass Storage Drivers
- Using third-party freeware
- Using Microsoft Fix It.
Lets us look at how we can fix these problems and enable USB on a Windows PC.
1] Enable, Disable USB Drives & Mass Storage Devices using Registry
If the administrator is smart, then he would definitely do this to ensure a tight blockade. He would alter the settings through regedit command on Run console. Now how do you unlock it? You have to go right into where the administrator has been. Here is how.
- Go to Start > Run, type “regedit” and press enter to open the registry editor
- Navigate to the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesUSBSTOR
In the right pane, select Start and change the value to 3. (The value 4 will disable USB Storage). Click OK. This will re-enable USB Ports and allow you to use USB or Pen drives.
2] Disable USB Ports from Device Manager
If you still don’t find your USB drive working, you may have to look into the Device Manager. The Administrator could have possibly disabled the USB port here. Check out for any possibility in the Device Manager and enable the disabled port by right-clicking on selected one and click Enable.
3] Uninstall USB Mass Storage Drivers
If the authorities are really worried about security in the school, they will take the extreme step of uninstalling the USB Mass Storage Drivers. To make things work, just install the device drivers. Here is how you do it.
As when you plug-in your USB drive, Windows will check for drivers, if not found Windows will prompt you to install the driver. This would definitely unlock the Pen drive at your School or office.
4] Use USB Drive Disabler/Enabler
You can download and use a free tool USB Drive Disabler/Enabler which will allow you to easily enable or disable USB drives on your Windows computer. www.intelliadmin.com to download it. The homecoming harold pinter pdf.
5] Prevent users from connecting USB
If a USB storage device is already installed on your Windows computer, you can edit the Windows Registry to ensure sure that the USB does not work when anyone connects it to the PC, using this Microsoft Fix it 50061 [This has been taken down by Microsoft now]. Check first if it applies to your version of the Windows operating system.
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