How to Write Protect USB easily

The following setting will prevent the users from writing to USB. Just follow some easy steps.

1.       Go to start and type “run” in the search box. Open “run”.

2.      Type regedit in the box.

3.       Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control.

4.       Add a new key and DWORD.

5.       Name key as “StorageDevicePolicies” and label DWORD as “WriteProtect”.

6.       Right click on DWORD and modify it. Set its value “1”.

7.       Now restart the computer for changes to take place.

8.       If you will set the value “0” again, then user will be allowed writing to USB.