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How to Desable/Enable Pen driver

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USB drives (pen drive) are very useful in these days but a user can easily use to transfer any confidential information from your computer to others and can also upload viruses affected files to your computer by accidentally or deliberately. But you can prevent the users to connect any USB drives in the computer by disabling the ability of "usbstor.sys" (USB driver) to load in system. It will block the USB storage devices only and your system USB keyboard, mouse and others USB devices will work properly.


How to Disable Pen drive?
  • First go to Start --> open "Run" (windows key+r) this will open the run prompt.
  • Then type "regedit" in run prompt and press Enter. This will open the Registry Editor.
  • In registry editor locate the given path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR

Here select the "USBSTOR" folder and in right side of the registry editor panel find the value with name "Start".
Double click on "Start" and then set its value 4 under "Value data" section.
Close the Registry editor and restart your computer for changes to apply.

How enable Pen drive?

When you want to restore the default setting, open the Registry Editor and set its value back to 3.
Now again close the Registry editor and restart your computer for changes to apply.
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