hi folks. Sometimes its necessary to Write protect the USB drive to prevent it from viruses and Trojans specially when you use it in a crowded area like in Office, School or College.Here, I'm gonna show you a simple trick to Write protect the USB drive in your PC without any third party software by simply making changes in the Windows registry.
Lets start:
- Open Notepad. copy the following code in it.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies] "WriteProtect"=dword:00000001
- Save it as registry file. Double click on it and you're done.
Now whenever you'll insert the USB and want to write in it, it'll deny it with following error.
- Open Notepad. Copy the following code in it.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies] "WriteProtect"=dword:00000000'
- Save it again as anything.reg file. Double click on it and viola you're USB drive is again ready to be written :P
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