How to prevent users from writing to USB drives?

Today
USB drive also known as keychain drive is becoming the most popular
removable storage device to move data to different locations. USB
drives are available in the market with different features, for example
password protected, compatible with all windows versions and extra
storage capacity (up to 65 GB).

A
common security issue at organizations is how to prevent their workers
to write data onto USB drives using their PCs, because a user can
easily move confidential data for other location.

If you have windows XP with SP2, then you can disable the writing option to USB drives.

Follow the given steps to disable the USB writing option:

To edit the computer registry, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.

First click on Start button and type "Regedit" in Run option.

Here locate the location to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

Here in right side panel, click right to create a key with the name "StorageDevicePolicies".

Now
in left side panel, select "StorageDevicePolicies" key, again right
click to create new DWORD value then label it "WriteProtect".

Set its value to "1". But again enable this option set its values "0".

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Clearing the Documents History Automatically

The windows Documents Menu display all the information about last used files and programs as a history.
Your co-workers, family members can trace your activates on the
computer with clicking on Documents menu. If you are using internet at
any public place like internet cafe then you should clear your
documents menu history to safe yourself from cyber crimes. You can
clear the documents menu history manually, but automatically history
clean option can be useful if one computer used by multiple people. To
clear the document history automatically, edit the computer registry
keys.

• Click Start button then type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

• Here locate the location to:

• Go to HKey_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft

\ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders

• Here in right side panel, double click on Recent and change its value of C:\RECYCLED.

• Now set your Recycle bin, "remove files immediately when deleted".

• Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.