Monday, July 29, 2013

How to Disable/Enable USB Ports on your Computer



 









 Hey! Today we will see how to Disable/Enable USB Ports on your computer, You might
 

have
 

personal and sensitive information/Files on your pc. it can be sometime threatened with the
 

presence of USB ports, Therefore you might be happy to disable them when you are not
 

around.

Disabling USB ports is an very easy task which is done through the Registry(If you have 


access to it

So here in this tutorial i will guide you steps in order to disable it and again how to enable it .

How To Disable Access To Usb Ports On A Computer.
 


Click on “Start” and navigate to “Run”[you can use the search] or by simply clicking the 

Windows button + R.

Type “regedit” in the text box and hit “Enter”.

Now, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

\UsbStor

 

Click on UsbStor and at the right-panel,double click “START”

Now,in the Value Data box, set the hexadecimal value to 4 and finally click on “OK” and exit 

the Registry editor.That's all for disabling USB ports.

Now,if you would like to re-enable an already disabled port,just:


Follow the instructions above and on getting to the Value Data box, replace “4” with 3 and 

that would be all.

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