Restrict Thumb drive use

**Yahoo** · November 21, 2005

Friens i fasing a problem,

In our company there is no FDD and Cd writer for clints....

But somebody using the thumb drive in that computers. As an Administrator how i can Restrict the use of thumb drive here..

Thanks ..

**aussiecanuck46** · November 21, 2005

This article might help you. It discusses a commercial product that addresses the lack of security on USB ports within Windows.

**ssmokee** · November 22, 2005

If you dont have any USB devices hooked up to the computers, you could simply disable USB in BIOS.

**Porn Loader** · November 22, 2005

you should be able to restrict usb drives using group policy.

**Ghostrider** · November 22, 2005

Try this..

First, create a whole new key: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control \ StorageDevicePolicies.

Then create a REG_DWORD entry in it called WriteProtect. Set it to 1 and you'll be able to read from USB drives but not write to them.

Edited November 22, 2005 by Ghostrider

**cluberti** · November 22, 2005

The key can be added in Group Policy, as well.

**Yahoo** · November 23, 2005

Thank you friends..

**Aegis** · November 24, 2005

Remove the USB drivers or create a custom image in Windows XP Embedded.

**Yahoo** · December 5, 2005

but i cant find out in registory ..

**cluberti** · December 5, 2005

As a previous poster stated, you will need to create the following registry value:

Key: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

Value: WriteProtect

Type: REG_DWORD

Value: 1

This key will not exist, so you will have to create it yourself to enable the write protection to external storage devices.

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