Sunday, February 05, 2012
ARUL KUMAR
ENABLE / DISABLE USB PORT (THROUGH REG EDIT)
These days the main form of data theft is by means of Pen drive . More than 90 % of data theft is happening with PEN drive /Flash drive. It is very essential to prevent from data theft. This can be done by Enabling and Disabling of USB port of our personal computers, so any unauthorized person can not copy away your data. By simply change the registry value in the "regediter" command we can do this. So that the data in your systems can't be copied into any other USB portable drives or pen drives. Remember even the external Back up medium like external hard disk also can not work after you modify this.
Here is the steps:
To enable the USB port
Start->Run->regedit-> ( Navigate to the following line )
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR
"Start"=dword:00000003.
To disable the USB port
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR]
"Start"=dword:00000004
that's it . Now your computer is risk free from data theft by pen drive.
Here is the screen shot of doing the above said procedure:
Here is the steps:
To enable the USB port
Start->Run->regedit-> ( Navigate to the following line )
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR
"Start"=dword:00000003.
To disable the USB port
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR]
"Start"=dword:00000004
that's it . Now your computer is risk free from data theft by pen drive.
Here is the screen shot of doing the above said procedure:
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