Block / Unblock USB device

Following are some options..

1. If you are tech savy then you can block USB access through the windows registry / registry editor - regedit.

To open the Registry Editor

• I >Prest CTRL+R
• II>type "regedit" and click on OK to start the regedit utility.

Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControl…

• From there right click and create a new key and
• name it "StorageDevicePolicies".
• In the window on the right then create a new DWORD value and
• label it WriteProtect, give it a value of "1" and
• users can no longer write to USB drives.
• To re-enable this option change the value to 0 and users are again allowed to write.

OR

• follow this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823732

2. Use one of the following software

• http://www.m2cfg.com/usb_writeblock.htm
• http://www.yzf888.com/usb/block-usb-software.html
• http://www.p-dd.com/usb-access-monitoring.html

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