Write protect your Pendrive to protect it from Virus

Many times you copy our working files into a USB DRIVE and take it to a client’s office or college to print or show the workings to clients and frnds using dere PCs. This could pose potential risk of exposure to virus infection especially if the PC you are using does not have an up-to-date antivirus application installed. As today’s viruses are crafted to perfection . it can damage to files stored in Pen Drive and even create infection in your laptop later .

For user who just want to disable write access to the external removable USB mass storage disk Drive, there is a registry hack of WriteProtect in StorageDevicePolicies registry key that able to restrict Windows system from writing to the USB disk drive.This trick will let Windows consider the USB Drive as read only.

To disable writing access to USB drives follow these steps:
USE ALL KEYWORDS WITHOUT " " DOUBLE QUOTES.

1. Press WIN + R
   
2. Write "regedit" in it.
   
3. It will open Registry Editor.
   
4. Navigate to the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

5. Create a New Key named as "StorageDevicePolicies".
6. Highlight "StorageDevicePolicies", and then create a New DWORD (32-bit) Value named as "WriteProtect"
7. Double click on "WriteProtect", and set its value data to 1.

Once set, all users on the computer is now blocked and prevented from copying, transferring or writing any files, documents and data to the USB disk drives.

8. To revert and remove the blocked write access to USB drives, just delete the StorageDevicePolicies registry key, or delete the WriteProtect registry entry, or change the value data for WriteProtect to 0.

OR

Copy the next 2 lines given below in notepad and save it as Disable.reg {you can give any name to this file but dnt forget to use .reg } and in file type select "All Types"


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
"WriteProtect"=dword:00000001


Similarly to remove write protection mode make new with name Enable.reg and write these 2 lines in it.


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
"WriteProtect"=dword:00000000


After creating these files Double Click them and registry setting will automatically get change.
*Registry Settings will get activate once u restart your computer.