Friday, January 9, 2009

Disable detection of USB Storage devices

To disable the detection of USB Storage devices paste the following in notepad and save it with a '.reg' extension.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR] "Start"=dword:00000004

merge it with the Windows registry.

To re-enable the detection of USB storage devices use:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR] "Start"=dword:3

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