Comments on: How To Prevent Windows XP Users From Writing To USB Drives

By: Windows XP

Windows XP — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:04:42 +0000

Thank you for telling me this! I use USB drives all the time to take my work from my job to my house to work on it, and I feel a lot safer now. Again, thank you!

By: Sebastian Alduncin Pisanty

Sebastian Alduncin Pisanty — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:49:59 +0000

The problem with this approach is that you get freezed against viruses and stuff…
when the antivirus try to erase or remove the virus, malware, the file just can´t because this ReadOnly policy…
so a better approach would be a selective policy for some programs…
I give this piece of information to see if someone would have a solution.

Thanks.

By: setiyana

setiyana — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:52:02 +0000

maybe you can tray this

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesUSBSTOR]
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000003

change the value from : dword:00000003
become: dword:00000004 to deactivate, meaning

3 for enable and 4 for disable. without restart the PC