How to Lock your pendrive/USB write protected in windows ?

We want some time to protect my usb drive from the third party users. There are lot of methoda today available . I would like to show how to protect your pendrive write protected by editing the registry files. After done the write protection ,You can't copy any files to your pendrive.

 

 Steps :

> Insert your pendrive to your USB drive. Check it is not write protected (checking by copy any thing to your USB)

> Press windows+R or run .Type regedit. Press enter.

 

> After that you can see a window like this image

 

> Click on arrow near HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and click on arrow of SYSTEM and CurrentControlSet

> Right click on the control and add new key

> After creating new key, change the name of new key to StorageDevicePolices

 

 > Right click on the StorageDevicePolicies, New >DWORD(32-bit)

 

> Right click on the write protected file of DWORD(32-bit) and click manage .

 

> Change the value Data to 1 .

 

 

> Thats It. You done! Remove the pendrive and again plug in to drive and check it.Yeah it become write protectd

> Enjoy. Your pendrive become write protectd. If you want to remove the write protection , change the write protected value to 0 .
 

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