Disabling / Enabling USB Storage Connections



For security reasons you may wish to disable the ability for a USB storage device to be connected to select machines



Create a batch file that will disable the USB Storage Connection



@echo off

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR" /v "Start" /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f

exit





Create a Third Party Template to run the batch file to disable USB storage connection





Create a batch file that will re-enable the USB Storage Connection



@echo off

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR" /v "Start" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f

exit



Create a Third Party Template to run the batch file to re-enable USB storage connection