COMPUTER TRICKS UPDATE

Registry Hack to Disable Writing to USB Drives Posted: 12 Aug 2008 07:40 AM CDT A common security concern at organizations is allowing users to plug in a usb flash drive, because they could so easily copy corporate data. Since Windows XP SP2, you can disable writing to USB devices altogether using a simple registry hack. Here it is: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies] “WriteProtect”=dword:00000001 ShareThis

Disabling Unused PORTS Posted: 12 Aug 2008 06:07 AM CDT I have just accidentally found out another way to give you an extra boost in windowsXP’s boot performance. This is done by disabling your unused devices in Device Manager. for example, if you don’t have input devices that are connected to one of your USBs or COM ports, disabling them will give you an extra perfromance boost in booting. Go [...] ShareThis