Lock Your USB Flashdisk Port


Trick to block your USB flashdisk

USB Flashdisk is the most applicable mobile storage to save our data. We can save anything to it, and open anything from it by plugging it in the USB port. But sometimes USB flashdisk became the "way" of some viruses to spread itself. Viruses make an autorun program to automatic inject your system when USB flashdisk is connected. You can easily prevent this accident by doing a simple trick, to make your computer doesn't accept USB flashdisk. The steps are as follow:
  1. Click Start, and then click Run or you can use Windows hotkey by pressing Windows button-R together.
  2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
  3. Locate, and then click the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor.
  4. In the right pane, double-click the value named Start.
  5. In the Value data box, type 4 (the default value is 3) and click Hexadecimal radio button(if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
  6. Don't forget to refresh the registry by pressing F5.
  7. Quit Registry Editor.
That's all the trick to prevent any USB flashdisk read by your computer. I hope usefull for you...
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