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How To Disable Usb In Windows Xp

How to apply Grouping Policy to disable USB drives on Windows XP

In my previous article "How to utilise Grouping Policy to make USB drives read only on Windows XP" I showed y'all you could configure Windows XP to prevent users from writing to USB block level devices. Nonetheless for some organisations just making drives read only is non enough I accept heard stories of them having to resort to using hot glue guns to prevent people using USB storage devices.

Update: I just constitute this article explains how use native Group Policy to disable you USB drives. Microsoft Support: HOWTO: Use Grouping Policy to disable USB, CD-ROM, Floppy Deejay and LS-120 drivers

Thankfully at that place is too a registry key in Windows XP that allows you to block the employ of USB storage devices. Now in that location are two ways to prevent USB storage devices so you may want to implement either or both methods in your organisation. Beginning method prevents computers that have already had USB devices installed and the 2d prevents any new USB devices from installing.

How to cake existing USB Storage Devices

To implement this edit a Grouping Policy Object that is applied to all the workstations in your organisation navigate to Computer Configuration > Preferences >Windows Settings > Registry. Then click on Activity > New > Registry Item type SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor into the Fundamental Path field and then type Start into the Value Name field and 4 in the Value Data field and click OK.

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If you want to preclude the installation of USB storage device then nosotros use Group Policy to gear up the security on the driver files to prevent and so from installing.

Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
Value: Offset
Information: 4 (hex) = Disabled
Data: 3 (hex) = Enabled

How to block new USB Storage Devices

This time edit a Group Policy Object that is practical to all the workstations in your organisation navigate to Reckoner Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > File System. So click on "Action" card and then "Add File". Navigate to C:\Windows\Inf and select "Usbstor.inf" and press "OK". Now click on "Users" in the security tab and so click in the "Deny" "Full Control" tick box then click OK.

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Notation: Alternatively you could simply add the name of the user or group you want to foreclose from using USB storage devices.

Click "Yes" to the security alert.

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And so click OK.

Note: Call back that deny permission take precedence so inherited permission will non take any affect and that we are applying the permission straight to a file so we don't need to worry about inheritance from this object.

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Now repeat the steps above and this fourth dimension select "C:\Windows\Inf\Usbstor.pnf"

You should see something like the images below in your grouping policy.

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Now either way when users plug in a USB Storage devices into a reckoner information technology will foreclose Bone from seeing the device thus preventing the users from reading and writing to removable media.

Come across the Microsoft commodity about this pick at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823732

HOWTO: Use Group Policy to disable USB, CD-ROM, Floppy Disk and LS-120 drivers

Source: https://www.grouppolicy.biz/2010/02/how-to-use-group-policy-to-disable-usb-drives-on-windows-xp/#:~:text=Navigate%20to%20C%3A%5CWindows,from%20using%20USB%20storage%20devices.

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