Disable Access to USB Flash Drive on your PC

[catkiller]

Step 1: Go to Start > Run > and type in regedit and press enter.

Step 2: Locate the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR

Step 3: Now on the right side double click on the value called Start & set it value to 4 & click OK.

Thats it. You have succesfully disabled access to the usb flash drive.

When you need to use your usb flash drive just change the value of Start to

3.If you're too lazy or newbie just copy & paste these codes into a notepad file and save it with a .reg extension.

Code to Disable access to the usb mass storage drive :
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR]
"Start"=dword:00000004

Code to Enable access to the usb mass storage drive :
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR]
"Start"=dword:00000003

[OverTaker]

Well the same thing can be done with the help BIOS and that too you have to press F8 and enter into the bios and then you will find the options to disable the external devices access that is flash drives.