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Write protect your USB ports

 

Your employees at the workplace are copying data on USB
pen drives and taking it home; You want to prevent  this, but how?

Write protect your USB ports to prevent data from getting stolen by unauthorised personnel.

A registry entry puts a stop to write access for USB drives. for it to work in Windows XP, at least service pack 2 needs to be installed. Start the registry editor with 'Start | Run', 'regedit' in and 'Ok' . under vista, type
 'regedit' in the search field in hte start menu and press [Enter]. in both cases, you need to.............
log in through a user account with administrator rights. open the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CureentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies' key in the key structure of editors.if this not exist, create it with 'EDIT | NEW | KEY'. now right-click on the free space towards the right side of the window and select the 'NEW | DWORD value' or DWORD value (32 bit)' context command. this time, overwrite the name suggested by windows with 'WriteProtect'. open the new entry and set its value to '1' in the 'Edit DWORD Value (32 bit)' dialog box. subsequently  confirm these changes with 'OK' and exit the registry editor using 'File | Exit. Finally, restart the computer to activate the write protection function.
NOTE: if you want to allow data to be copied to a USB drive in the future again, change the value of hte 'WriteProtect' key in the registry editor to '0'.

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