December 2011

Many a time, it becomes necessary for us to write protect our USB flash drive so as to protect it from viruses and other malware programs.
Because flash drives are so popular and most widely used to move data between computers, they are the prime target for attackers as a means to get infections spread around the computer world. Also, since USB drive is not a Read-Only Memory (ROM), the data inside it can easily be modified or deleted by malware programs.
But unfortunately, most of the new flash drives do not come with a write-protect feature as the manufacturers wish to cut down the cost of production. Hence, the only way to write-protect your USB flash drives is to enable this feature on your own computer.

This can be done by adding a small entry to the Windows registry which acts as a switch that can be enabled to make use of the write protection or disabled to allow write access. Just follow these steps:

1. Open the Registry Editor (Open the “Run” dialog box, type regedit and hit “Enter”).

2.Navigate to the following Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\

3. Create a New Key named as StorageDevicePolicies. To do this right-click on Control, and click on New->Key and name it as StorageDevicePolicies.

4. Now right-click on  StorageDevicePolicies and create a New->DWORD (32-bit) Value and name it as WriteProtect.

5. Double-click on WriteProtect and set the Value data to 1.

> Now the right-protection for USB drives is enabled on your computer (no restart required) and thus it would not be possible for anyone or any program to add/delete the contents from your USB flash drive. Any attempt to copy or download the files onto the USB drive will result in the following error message being displayed.

> To revert and remove the write-protection, all you need to do is just change the Value data for WriteProtect (Step-5) from 1 back to 0. Now write access to all the USB devices is re-enabled...

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When you install Windows XP an Administrator Account is created
(you are asked to supply an
administrator password), but the
“Welcome Screen” does not give you
the option to log on as Administrator
unless you boot up in Safe Mode. First you must ensure that the

Administrator Account is enabled:
1. Open Control Panel
2. Open Administrative Tools
3. Open Local Security Policy
4. Expand Local Policies 5. Click on Security Options
6. Ensure that Accounts: Administrator
account status is enabled. Then follow the instructions from the
“Win2000 Logon Screen Tweak” ie;
1.Open Control Panel
2. Open User Accounts
3. Click Change the way users log on
or log off 4. Un-tick Use the Welcome Screen
5. Click Apply Options

You will now be able to log on to
Windows XP as Administrator in
Normal Mode.

# Another Method:

By default windows XP doesn’t show
the Administrator in the user list at the welcome screen. Here’s a way to
get around it. Now head up to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software
\Microsoft\WindowsNT
\CurrentVersion\
Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\User list
create a new DWORD entry and name it as Administrator and change its value to 1.
exit and reboot for the changes to
take effect.
To change it back change its value to 0
or simply delete the key.

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