Comments on: Disable USB Flash Drives

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:53:58 +0000

Glad it helped you out Trevor – thanks for taking the time to comment.

Steve

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:19:29 +0000

P.S – Just tried a wireless USB keybourd and mouse. They operate perfectly. USB memory sticks and USB external hard drives do not.
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks
Trevor Betts

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:10:58 +0000

Absolute genius. I followed the link 2008/12 re file sharing. The first change re file sharing was already in place. The second change re “simple file sharing” in folder options was ticked so I unticked it and hey presto, the remote USB disabler programme works!!! I would neve have found the second issue in folder options in a million years. Your product is excellent and the support is even better. Sincere thanks
Trevor Betts

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:30:59 +0000

This is a an access denied message. You probably have a feature enabled known as “Simple File Sharing”

You will need this turned off, and file and printer sharing enabled….read this article for a walkthrough:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2008/12/enabling-file-and-printer-sharing-in-windows-xp/

If you are still having trouble, send me an email at support@intelliadmin.com and I will try to help.

Steve

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:45:08 +0000

usbremotedisabler. I cannot get it to work on an XP network (other than disabling the machine it is run from). Error message “failed to set data for start”. No firewall or protection running. Programme is being run as administrator. Step 1 locates all computers on the network.Computer selected from list. Step 2 – Username – Administrator (also tried the computer name of the computer the programme is run from). Password – as required at logon on the computer the programme is run from. Domain – IP address of the computer the programme is run from. On submit, blue bar runs for several seconds then error message. What am I doing wrong?
T.Betts

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:38:14 +0000

Hello San,

You need to make some changes to Windows 7 to get it to work:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2009/08/windows-7-the-admin-share/

In addition, make sure the remote registry service is started and set to automatic.

By: san

san — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:46:05 +0000

hi USB Disabler is good tool for admin

but i am facing an issue witn win 7 PC in my network. ” A connection attempt fail because connected party did not respond after time aperiod of time”

By: uttam75r@gmail.com

uttam75r@gmail.com — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:27:58 +0000

hi tell me all about disable pen drive

By: Stovokhor

Stovokhor — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:57:45 +0000

Ok, please ignore my posting above. After uninstalling my usb devices _completely_ from the registry, the effect occurs on my system too.

So, i renamed the usbstor files as suggested in the article, rebooted and plugged in my usb stick. But then a window pops up that asks me, where the driver files for this usb devices are located. Is there anyway to suppress this behaviour?

By: Stovokhor

Stovokhor — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:02:38 +0000

Hi all!

Thanks for this great article.

In your article you say, that after setting the registy entry to value 4 without deleting the 2 usbstor files, windows will reload the drivers and reset the registry entries value to 3 again if you plug in a new usb storage device.

I did not observe that behaviour. In my case, it was totally sufficient to set this single value to 4 and from this point on, my win xp installation was no longer able to detect any usb drive.

With which windows versions did you observer this “reset”-behaviour?