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Registry Hacks for USB Security

USB Drives are one of the major tool through which data transfer takes place. In order to
protect your data from getting stolen from you computer with the help of a USB drive you can
make the USB drives read only. Go to

‘HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies  and create a new DWORD value ‘WriteProtect ‘ and set its
value to 1. This will enable you to read from USB drives, but you won’t be able to copy data to it.

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