Stop users from writing to usb

If you have windows XP with SP2, then you can disable the writing option to USB drives.

This trick is very useful if you have some viruses in your computer and want to copy files from a USB Drive but u don’t want to transfer virus to the USB. Follow the given steps to disable the USB writing

option:

To edit the computer registry, first you should log onto ur computer with administrative rights.

Click on Start button and type “Regedit” in Run option.

Here locate the location to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

Here in right side panel, click right to create a key with the name “StorageDevicePolicies”.

Now in left side panel, select “ StorageDevicePolicies ” key, again right click to create new DWORD value and then label it “ WriteProtect ”. Set its value to “ 1 ″. But again to

enable writing, set its values to “0″.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after

any changes to go into effect.