for getting virus infected files from your friends
PC or even from your college project
submission computer. Well now as soon as the
virus infects your USB Drive you are prone to
making your files infected and hence making
them useless in many cases. Well the one way
to protect your USB Drive is to install good
antivirus software that will help you keep track
of any virus and immediately taking action on
that virus file, either by deleting it or fixing it.
Well the another
way is to enable the write protection that will
not allow anyone using your computer to
transfer anything to your USB Drive. Well I
already posted how you can remove write
protection from your USB Drive in case your
drive was infected and write protection was
enabled automatically. Or in some case you just
wanna format the write protected USB Drive we
have got solution for that problem too....
How to Enable Write Protection on your USB
Drive
But for now lets see how you can easily enable
write protection on your USB Drive hence
making it secure from any unidentified transfer.
1. Open Notepad and type below code into
it.Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet\Control
\StorageDevicePolicies]
“WriteProtect”=dword:00000001
2. Now just save it as Write-Protection-On.reg make sure the extension
remains .reg for the file to work fine. Or
you can also download thisdirectly.
3. Now just double click on this file and press
OK, now this entry will be added in your
registry and write protection will be
enabled.
4. Now just plug in your USB Drive and try to
transfer any file to it. It won’t transfer
instead it will show you some error like
Write Protection enabled.
How to Disable Write Protection on USB
Drive
Now you have successfully protected your USB
Drive from getting infected, well if you are
planning to remove the write protection, well it
can be done pretty easily, you just need to
follow below steps.
1. Open Notepad and type below code into
it.Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet\Control
\StorageDevicePolicies]
“WriteProtect”=dword:00000000
2. Now just save it as Write-Protection-
Off.reg
make sure the extensionremains .reg for the file to work fine. Or
you can also download this
.on reg directly.
3. Now just double click on this file and press
OK, now this entry will be added in your
registry and write protection will be
disabled.
4. Now simply remove your USB and Plug In
once again, now you will see you are once
again able to transfer file easily.
So guys this ends another very amazing tutorial,
hope you found this one a good one helping
you in getting rid of those nasty viruses. Well if
you think I missed something or maybe there is
something that needs to be fixed, do comment
below.
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