How To Disable or Enable USB Ports of Your PC
You may have faced a problem, you plugged your USB drive in a PC but then the system did not recognize it. You must have wondered that you might have damaged your drive but in reality it may be so that the USB ports of that system was blocked. It is a very common in school and offices that block their ports to protect their confidential information.
One can easily disable or enable the USB ports just making a few changes to the registry. It can be very useful on systems that are shared by many and are prone to data threats. You can modify the registry entries to block or unblock the USB ports but you will need Administrator privileges to do so.
How To Disable or Enable USB Ports:
Open Run by clicking on the Windows and R. Instead In the window, type in regedit and press enter to open the registry editor. Go to -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR
Now right hand side right click on the registry Start and then choose the modify option.
If you want to enable the USB ports than you must change the value of the file from 4 to 3. And if you want to disable the USB ports you must change the value from 3 to 4.
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