Great Way to Write-Protect USB Flash Drive

Want to write protect your USB flash drive ?

Want to write protect your USB flash drive ?

Want to protect it from viruses and other malware programs ?

Usb Flash drive are most frequently used to transfer data between computers and they are responsible for computer infection too.  Since USB drives  are  not a Read-Only Memory (ROM), the data contents of  it can easily be modified or deleted by most of  malware programs.


For write protecting USB flash drive. Steps are:

1. Open the Registry Editor (Open the “Run” dialog box, type regedit and hit “Enter”).
2. Navigate to the following Registry key:
3. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\
4. Create a New Key named as StorageDevicePolicies. To do this right-click on Control, and click on New Key and name it as StorageDevicePolicies.
5. Now right-click on StorageDevicePolicies and create a New->DWORD (32-bit) Value and name it as WriteProtect.
6. Double-click on WriteProtect and set the Value data to 1.

Now USB drive is write protected and no need to restart the computer.

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