Prevent Your Data from Being Copied To USB Drives

Do you have some important data on your personal computer which you don’t want anybody to copy in to their USB Drives or whether you are having a Company and you don’t want your employees to copy any official data in to their Drives and take it with them.  Lot of people faces similar situations where they don’t know how to prevent their data from being copied.

The Best Solution to this problem is to Disable USB Drive on your computer. But it would be very difficult on new machines as they don’t have PS2 ports and are compatible only with USB Mouse, USB Keyboard and USB Scanner etc. It is easy to Lock USB ports from BIOS but it will disable USB Entirely which is not a feasible solution.

To disable only your USB Drives, you need to go to Registry Editor.

To open Registry Editor, Go To start   -> Type Run.

After that browse to the following key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor

After that Notice Value “Start” in Right Pane of Window

Change the Value of start from 3 to 4 and it will disable all USB storage devices and other USB Devices like USB Keyboard, Mouse would keep on working.

Alternatively, If you Don’t want to follow the registry editor Process, you can simply download a free

Tool HERE which will disable USB Storage devices for you as shown in following figure:-

If you know of any other method to disable USB Storage Devices, then please share with us in comments below.

Gagandeep Singh is working as internet Marketing Executive for Fortepromo, which manufacture custom Flash Drives and other promotional productions for all kinds of business which help them to promote their brands among their clients.