Prevent Writing to USB Devices in Windows Easy Way Prevent Copying without Permission

USB Devices are extremely portable and makes copying or sharing data from one Computer to another easy. But there might be instances when you don't want anyone to copy any contents from your PC. Well here is the solution you need...

Just Follow these Simple Steps :

Step 1: Click on the Start button on your taskbar, then click on Run and type “regedit” and click on OK... Windows 7 users just type this in 'Search programs and files' area.

Step 2: Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control.

Step 3: From there right click and create a new key and name it “StorageDevicePolicies”

Step 4: In the window on the right then create a new DWORD value and label it WriteProtect

Step 5: Give it a value of “1″ and users can no longer write to USB drives.

To re-enable this option change the value to 0 and users are again allowed to write.

The modifications you made will be in effect after you restart Windows Explorer.