HOW TO BLOCK OR UNBLOCK USB PORTS IN WINDOW 10/7/8
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HOW TO BLOCK OR UNBLOCK USB PORTS IN WINDOW 10/7/8
How often have you witnessed blocked Pen drive or USB drive access in your workplace or college or school,office? I believe many times; in fact, every time you try to use the USB drive, you are not allowed, simply because the administrator has disabled USB drive detection on your Windows system. Again, how often has your data been stolen because someone connected an unauthorized USB to your computer and copied your files? Well, you don’t need to worry because the solution to disable or enable USB Ports is very simple.Restrict access to USB drives
There are many ways an administrator can prevent using of USB Drives
Here is the some tricks you can learn in few easy steps:
- Altering registry values for USB Mass Storage Devices.
- Disabling USB Ports from Device Manager.
- By Uninstalling the USB Mass Storage Drivers
- Using third-party freeware
- Using Microsoft Fix It.
- Lets us look at how we can fix these problems and enable USB on a Windows PC.
Enable, Disable USB Drives & Mass Storage Devices using Registry
If the administrator is smart, then he would definitely do this to ensure a tight blockade. He would alter the settings through regedit command on Run console. Now how do you unlock it? You have to go right into where the administrator has been. Here is how.
Go to Start > Run, type “regedit” and press enter to open the registry editor
Navigate to the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR
In the right pane, select Start and change the value to 3.
(The value 4 will disable USB Storage).
HOW TO BLOCK OR UNBLOCK USB PORTS IN WINDOW 10/7/8 |
This will re-enable USB Ports and allow you to use USB or Pen drives.
- Disable USB Ports from Device Manager
- If you still don’t find your USB drive working, you may have to look into the Device Manager.
- The Administrator could have possibly disabled the USB port here.
- Check out for any possibility in the Device Manager and enable the disabled port by right clicking on selected one and click Enable.
HOW TO BLOCK OR UNBLOCK USB PORTS IN WINDOW 10/7/8
HOW TO BLOCK OR UNBLOCK USB PORTS IN WINDOW 10/7/8 |
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