Disable/Enable USB Ports from Registry

In this tutorial I am discussing the steps to disable USB Ports from registry. I advice you to take a backup of current registry before starting any registry tweaks.

Steps to disable USB Ports from registry

The steps to disable USB Ports from registry are:

1. Click on start and go to Run

2. Type regedit on Run window and press enter

Now the registry editor will be opened.

3. Navigate to following registry path

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor

4. Click on UsbStor and a list of attributes will be displayed on the right panel.



5. Double click on start and set the hexadecimal value to 4 and click OK.

Now the USB ports on your computer will be disabled.

How to enable USB Ports on your computer

To enable USB Port on your computer follow the steps 1 to 4 and set the hexadecimal value to 3 on start.


To know the tips to disable USB ports from BIOS click on the link below.

Disable USB Port from BIOS



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