How To Enable Or Disable USB Storage Device’s Read Write Access

How to enable USB storage device in Microsoft Windows? With future bosses growing up in the digital age, it gets harder and harder as they tend to limit internet access, monitor our computer usage and at time prevent the use of USB flash drive for fear of information thief or spread of viruses.

How To Enable Or Disable USB Storage Device's Read Write Access

What if you need to have a copy of your office work as portfolio and these involves large images such as photoshop? Well, if you happened to be using the UAC account (administrator) for your workstation, chances are, you have access to the the opportunity to hack your registry.

Step 1 – Create a new text file (right click on desktop, go to new and select text document).
Step 2 – Copy and paste the following code into the text file
Step 3 – Rename the file name and change the extension accordingly. (e.g. EnableUSB.reg)
Step 4 – Double click the reg file and you’re done

Disable USB Write:

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

Enable USB Write:

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

That wasn’t too hard, was it? A simple registry hack without third party software. This makes more sense because you don’t have access to the internet and no possible way of installing a program.

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