How To Improve Security
December 10th, 2009 | 
Author: If strangers have physical access to your PC, it’s easy for them to plug in a USB flash drive and make copies of your data.
If you’re using Windows XP SP2 or later, though, there’s a simple way to prevent this from happening.
- Go to “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies”
- Create a DWORD value called ‘WriteProtect’ and set it to 1.
- You’ll be able to read USB drives, but not write to them any more
Posted in Registry Hacks