How to Disable USB Drives on Windows 10: A Step-by-Step Guide

Secure Your Data: In this comprehensive Windows 10 tutorial, you'll learn how to enhance your computer security by restricting access to USB drives and removable devices. By disabling USB drives, you can safeguard your important data from being copied to unauthorized pen drives and protect your PC from potential threats like virus transmission via USB drives.

Easy and Reversible: We'll guide you through the process of disabling USB drives using the Group Policy Editor, ensuring you have full control over when and how to enable them again.

- Introduction
- Reasons for USB Drive Restriction
- The Easiest Method Explained
- Step-by-Step Instructions
- Configuring Key Settings
- Live Demonstration: USB Drive Access Denied
- Enabling USB Ports

Information for Other Windows Versions: This USB drive restriction technique is not limited to Windows 10. It's also applicable to Windows 7 and 8.

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🌐 A Microsoft Windows 10 Tutorial By The Teacher

Welcome to this essential tutorial on securing your Windows 10 PC. Today, we'll show you how to disable USB drives and enhance your computer's security. USB drive restriction is crucial to prevent data leakage and protect your system from potential threats.

Follow these steps using the Group Policy Editor:
2. Navigate to Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - Removable Storage.
3. Configure three settings: "Removable disks deny execute access," "Removable disks deny read access," and "Removable disks deny write access." Enable each policy.

Now, when you plug in a USB drive, access will be denied, ensuring your data's safety.

Feel free to reconfigure these policies whenever you need to enable USB ports.

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[javcube]

Thanks for this info, was looking for that.

[nishthakamboj]

thanku so much this is the same content m looking for...

[olamas]

Beautiful tutorial... I have been looking for this all my time. Thanks a lot for this trick. It works perfectly

[kabakyabak]

How to do this for a specific user? I want to disable it only on the account that I created for guest users.

[Firangitadka]

Hello Teacher how to block microsd CARD or the slot on Win 10 through GPO please let me know thx

[kasunimudunkotuwa]

😙 It is a good protection. Thank You.😙

[SugarFaithChannel]

how about for cell phone..i cannot see show icons..plz help..i did already the contral pael..i can see the usb drive but when im using the cell phone i can see it but after i click my this computer and click my iphone or my android i cannot see in the show icon eject

[Imortaljman]

when i go to administrative templates there is no files, why is that?

[SlayKweenie]

Your voice should be in a star trek ships computer

[goodtaye]

is it applicable to windows 7 ad other version of widows? which other methods are availale

[tenzinwangchuk]

I have got problem with enabling the drive after disabling, having had followed all the procedure given in the tutorial. It shows "Access is denied" so author, please help me out.

[DoctorShashank]

Missed the last step i think thats y its not working instead of three also enable the forth which is "all removable storage classes: deny all access "

[narendraverma]

Good information. Is it secure? because if the Removable disk is already enabled then anyone can do "not configured" easily

[minhajshakeel]

why my removabel disk show insert a disk.?

[DusmaEduardo]

hello, can you help me? i cannot find the Removable Storage Access folder ( win 10 home single version1607)
also i tried to disable usb drives by changing the value to 4 ( usb folder ), but even as a administrator it didnt worked

[attituderittik]

Ata to astay say na ki korbo plc help me

[benya]

Thank you, been searching for a while for a working method on windows 10. I tried the regedit method however it doesn't work at all (Change the value to 4 at USBTor). This method is working, however i wish there was a shortcut method that toggles these three values in one click, is it possible to do one ? As it's do-able with .reg files... Thanks in advance

[pankilshah]

What if i need to allow only phone storage but block everything else? does it possible? Thanks in advance.

[anix]

i want a notification Message in my Mail, if Anyone sent invalid password in my pc .

[raymartigsi]

why is it mine is not working? i can still open my flashdrive.