Guide | How To How to Block Your USB Ports

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Freddyand5

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Following is a simple registry tweak which can be done in order to disable your USB ports to be used for any storage device.

1- Press Windows key on your key board to view Start menu

2-Type ‘regedit’ and hit Enter to open Registry Editor

3- Navigate the key USBStor in the left most pane of Registry Editor, via following path

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/USBStor

4- Now in the right pane, locate the value Start with the Value Data as 3

5- Double click the value to Modify

6- Change the Value Data to 4

7--Click Ok and Exit Registry Editor

8- Reboot your computer

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You can easily reverse this action by repeating the first six steps from above and Changing the Value Data back to 3.
 

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