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How to Enable or Disable USB Ports In Windows

How to Enable or Disable USB Ports In Windows


How to Enable or Disable USB Ports In Windows

This is the most important trick for those who left their computer open for a while and other people get access to the computer and with the help of USB they steal data without prior knowledge. This trick is very common question among the Windows PC users for those who are very sensitive with their computer data, if you want to secure your computer without your presence that no can steal your data then follow the 5 ways so that you can block or disable all USB ports in your system but, later on, you can again enable it for your use.
How to Enable or Disable USB Ports In Windows
The 5 ways to block or disable USB ports of your computer:
  1. Altering or changing registry values to disable USB Ports.
  2. Disabling USB ports from Device Manager.
  3. By Uninstalling your USB Mass Storage Drivers.
  4. Using Third party software
  5. Use Microsoft Support for Fixing It
So let’s have a point to point analyzing the 5 ways you can disable your USB ports on Windows 7/8 PC.

#1 Disable or Enable USB Drivers and Mass Storage Drivers Using Registry

I would prefer this method for everyone because it helps users to do the process of enabling and disabling the USB ports in fast effective way irrespective of other methods, if the administrator is quite smart the register setting will save more time.
Follow Step By Step
1. Go To Desktop From Desktop Press “Win Button + R
2. You will Prompt as Run in That Type “Regedit
5 Ways You Can Disable USB Ports in Your Windows Based Operating System
5 Ways You Can Disable USB Ports in Your Windows Based Operating System
3. Now You Will Be Prompt a window in That Follow What is written
HIKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE <-> SYSTEM <-> CURRENT CONTROL SET <-> SERVICES<-> USBSTOR
5 Ways You Can Disable USB Ports in Your Windows Based Operating System
5 Ways You Can Disable USB Ports in Your Windows Based Operating System
4. Now you have to just find out START in the working area
5. In that to Disable Just Change the Value data with “4” or for Next time if you want to again Enable your USB port the Change it to “3” but remember after every task or changing the value Close your Registry Editor…
#2 Disabling USB ports from Device Manager
The above method perfect way to disable USB ports on computers but what if, that does not even worked and you can still access to the computer via USB ports, the another method of disabling the USB ports is through the Device Manager which will be located with a right click on the My computer icon and select MANAGE, after that the rest of the process will be described below..
5 Ways You Can Disable USB Ports in Your Windows Based Operating System
5 Ways You Can Disable USB Ports in Your Windows Based Operating System
Right Click on MY COMPUTER icon -> then select MANAGE -> then you will be pop up with windows similar to the above image now at left select the Device Manager from then you will be shown to Universal Serial Bus Controllers -> under USBCselect all the device and with right click Disable all and see if it is working or not. IF not working the restart your computer but remember later on you can enable that device later even after rebooting your computer.
#3 By Uninstalling your USB Mass Storage Drivers
In schools if administrators worried about and concern about more in security data breach purpose then the best way to disable the USB ports is to uninstalling of each and every USB drivers installed in your system, the uninstalling of MASS Storage Drivers is the extreme steps taken only by the users who really think that they for the next time will not be required to transfer data via USB ports eventually.
But this is also a case study that the drivers can manually install when you have uninstalled your Mass Storage Drivers from the computer the after plugin your USB device – Windows will search for USB port drivers and automatically it will install the drivers and you USB will again start working as usual.
The last but not the least!

#4 Using the Third-Party Software

For disabling the USB ports on your computer after analysing all the above steps and methods, you are not satisfied then probably you need to install any third-party software into your computer so that will block your computer’s USB ports manually with a programme software download it from here.
5 Ways You Can Disable USB Ports in Your Windows Based Operating System
5 Ways You Can Disable USB Ports in Your Windows Based Operating System
The software can easily downloadable from the link here the USB Driver Disable / Enable, What you can do with the software? you can disable and enable your computer’s USB ports.
#5 Use Microsoft Support for Fixing It
Now if you have seen that the USB ports are not working even after you have replaced the previous setting such as Windows Registry Editor the now you probably needed Windows service support that is Microsoft Fix it 50061. Apply the setup and it will fix your problems subsequently.

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