How to Disable and Enable PC Usb Ports.

Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports are ports on a desktop or Laptop computer through which external devices such as Usb Flash drives, adapters, external hard disk, printers, micro sdcard, etc are connected to a computer either to transfer files to and from the computer.

With Usb drive, files can be copied from your computer. But in a situation where you want keep your computer aside but don't want unauthourized persons to copy your files and software from your computer, then your option is to disable the Usb port.

In this tutorial, am going to show you how to disable and as well enable your pc usb ports.

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• HOW TO DISABLE USB PORTS:

1. Goto Run then type CMD then hit Enter.
On the command prompt window, type REGEDIT and hit enter.

2.Now 'Registry editor' window opens.Here you
have to navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
\usbstor .

3.To navigate this first double click on
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE from the left pane.
After clicking on it this will expand, Now
expand SYSTEM by clicking on it and then
CurrentControlSet-->Services.

4. Now after Services you have to find
"USBSTOR". So single click on USBstor (not
double click or expand). After clicking on it at
the work area double click on 'start.



A little window will pop-up, here in the 'Value
data' box change the value to 4. also make
sure that the tick mark is on Hexadecimal.

5. Now click on "OK". You have now successfully locked your usb port. You can plug in a usb drive to confirm this.

Also if you wish to unlock your locked Usb ports, all you have to do is repeat the same process all over again that is open registry editor and
Navigate to this path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet\Services\usbstor.
And click on Start But now you have to change
the value to default. i.e from '4' to '3'. so
type 3 in the box and click ok.
Now you have successfully unlocked the ports.

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