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Disabling the use of USB storage devices in Windows XP

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/disabling-the-use-of-usb-storage-devices-in-windows-xp.17772/

teknoPhobia
teknoPhobia Original post #1
Oct 29, 2005 at 5:01 PM
I need a solution not involving 3rd party software to disable usb storage devices in windows XP, all I could find out is it can be done by doing something with usbstor.dll and usbscan.sys but I couldn't find out how exactly, if someone could help I would be very grateful.......
Vishal Gupta
Oct 29, 2005 at 8:50 PM
May be following link help u:

How to disable the use of USB storage devices
S
Oct 29, 2005 at 9:17 PM
With this i learnt how to enable usb device in my office thank you very much....
teknoPhobia
Oct 31, 2005 at 4:10 PM
Thanks a lot, I searched microsoft.com and I don't know how I overlooked the article