Make Your Pc Safe

For the sake of convenience, users sometimes like to copy their working files into a USB drive. Instead of bringing their own laptop, they tend to bring their USB to a client’s office to print or show the workings to clients and others using available PCs. This could pose potential risk of exposure to virus infection especially if the PC you are using does not have an up-to-date antivirus application installed. As today’s viruses are crafted to perfection and have evolved to become more sophisticated, the damage to files stored in your pen drive and even the infection to your laptop later could be substantially catastrophic. To avoid this unnecessary headache, of course you can choose to install antivirus application to your USB drive for security protection. Alternately, you could write protect your USB drive as the ideal solution.

Most USB drives have a small write-protect switch or slider like what you used to find in floppy disks which can be used to lock the drive as read only. If your USB drive doesn’t have one, to write protect or disable write access to the removable USB drive, you can try the registry hack of WriteProtect in StorageDevicePolicies registry key. If editing registry files is something you will only do last, perhaps some of the applications below could help you.

ThumbScrew
Thumbscrew is a free application which allows users to write protect their USB drive. Once it is installed, users just need to right click the System Tray icon and choose “Make USB Read Only” to activate the write protect.

USB Write Protector
Similar to ThumbScrew, USB Write protector is another free utility to write protect your USB drive. This utility is tiny in size and you can carry it along with you in your removable USB drive. USB Write protector can be downloaded via the link here.

With these applications above, you can easily write protect your USB pen drive from being accessed through the system. If you happen to come across better applications to write protect USB flash drive, feel free to share with us.


What More:

By enabling the write protection Your Peresonal computer becomes personal agaon as it doesn't allow any external source to write in Through any Usb external device like falsh disk or even a usb Dvd Rom.

By disabling you can make any usb drive writable. Sometimes it gets write protected automatically soooo here is the solution.