WRITE PROTECT YOUR FLASH DRIVE

Today organizations is allowing users to plug in a USB FLASH DRIVE, because they could so easily copy corporate data. Since window XP, you can do disable writing to USB devices altogether using a simple trick, however one should also note that if you are using this trick, you should make sure that the users are not administrators on the computers, because they could easily change this setting back.
To do this simply follow the steps given below.

1. Goto start->run. Type regedit and press OK.

2. Follow the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Currentcontrolset\Control].

3. Make a new key named it ”StorageDevicePolicies”. Make a new DWORD value in it, name it “Write Protect”.

4. Now set the DWORD value to 1 to enable write protect and set it to 0 to disable write protect.

You can also simply paste the below code to notepad and save it as enable.reg to enable write protect.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\storagedevicepolicies]
"writeprotect"=dword:00000001

And save the following code to notepad as disable.reg  to make write protect disabled.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\storagedevicepolicies]
"writeprotect"=dword:00000000

Double click the enable.reg file to make write protect enable and disable.reg to disable write protect.