Protect Your Valuable Data being Stole through USB drive From Your Computer

USB is one of the wonderful device through which we can transfer data from one computer to another computer. Many people are using USB flash drive to transfer data. It can transfer data from 1 GB to 65 GB. It is a plug and play device. Unlike other devices, we don’t need any type of drivers to be installed on computer before using it.

USB flash drive has many uses but there is one side effect of USB flash drive is that anybody can stolen data from your computer using it. Suppose if you are working in a News Paper office or in any Educational Organization, there are plenty of data or Information present in Computers. Such as Student information which can be easily taken by any company employee using USB drive. Some times these type of data stolen method becomes the tremendous loss for company.


Here is one of the nice method through which nobody can copy any data from your computer using USB flash drive.

Note:- As these steps involve the changes in Windows Registry. These steps might cause some issue. So, I recommend to back up the registry before performing the changes. Here are the steps to back up the registry.

I. Backing up the registry:

1. Click Start, Run.
2. In the “Open” field type “REGEDIT” (without quotes.)
3. Click OK.
4. Click “Registry” in the menu.
5. Click “Export Registry” from the drop down menu this will open a new box.
6. Click the down arrow beside “Save In” and select “Local Disk (C.”
7. In the File Name field type BACKUP.REG.
8. Verify that under the “Export Range”, that the radio button is beside “All”.
9. Click Save.
10. Close the window.

The registry is now backed up.

II. Making changes in the registry to not allow USB data transfer from your computer.

1. Click Start, Run.
2. In the “Open” field type “REGEDIT” (without quotes.)
3. Click OK.
4. Click the plus sign (+) beside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
5. Click the plus sign (+) beside SYSTEM.
6. Click the plus sign (+) beside CurrentControlSet.
7. Click the plus sign (+) beside Control.
11. Right click the Control and Select New >> KEY and give its name as Storage Device Policies.
10. Select the Storage Device Policies and in the right pane, right click on empty space and Select New >> DWORD Value and give its name as Write Protected.
12. Right-click the Storage Device Policies value and choose Modify. The default value will be Zero, change it to 1.
14. Click OK to close the dialog box.
15. Close the registry editor window.
16. Now, Restart the Computer.

Now, nobody can transfer data from your through USB flash drive including you. This technique is very useful in Internet Cafes and various companies.