How to Disable USB Storage Device Writing in windows XP – SP2

by Nideesh C on January 11, 2011 · 2 comments

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How to Disable USB Storage Device Writing/To make USB mass-storage devices read only:

Open Regedit and navigate to ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\Control key’

Highlight the subkey ‘StorageDevicePolicies’ If there is no such subkey, create it by right clicking ‘control key’ and choosing ‘new\key’. Once you have the ‘StorageDevicePolicies’ subkey highlighted, right click it and select ‘new\ DWORD value.’ Give the value the name WriteProtect. Double click the new value and give it the value of ’1′ Exit and restart.

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1 Andrus January 17, 2011 at 6:33 pm

thanks.

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2 isabel January 17, 2011 at 6:33 pm

I like this. Thanks.

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