prevent users from writing to usb <WINXP>

[Ramakrishnan]

The following registry setting will prevent writing to usb in windows xp.

Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control

Add 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. Giving a value of "0" will allow to write again

 

[Vishal Gupta]

Yeah! Its a useful trick.

I posted it in following thread:

TUTORIAL: All Kinds of Restrictions for Windows XP/2003

 

[pradisdeep]

thanks for the trick i have been waiting for this..... But vishal u are great in playin with regs

 

[::vicky::]

good one