Today one of my friend called me up and was asking about this issue, but he also said that he want the USB drive to read files but don’t want to write files to it or copy from it for some security purpose.
Suddenly i thought, is it possible to do it? i was little bit confused about it. Then i got some idea and was testing about it. and finally i got it. Using GP edit or Registry edit, one can easily do this task.
If you don’t know how to do it, follow the below steps and you could also keep some tight security for your USB Drive.
To perform this we need to edit some registry entries. To do this registry edition follow the steps below.
1. Click on start and go to Run.
2. Type “regedit”, with our quotes on run command window and click OK. Now the registry editor will be opened. Now follow the following path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
3. Create a DWORD value called ‘WriteProtect‘ and set it to 1.
4. To disable write protect on USB drives change the DWORD to 0.
It feels great to learn these tricks and teach someone else too.
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