How to deny access to all removable storage classes in Windows 7?

With the help of this setting you can deny access (read/write) to all the removable storage classes such as Floppy drives, CD/DVD drives, USB flash drives and so on.

To deny access to all removable storage classes (disks/drives) follow these simple steps:

1) Open Start menu and type gpedit.msc in the search box and press Enter key



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2) In the Local Group Policy Editor window navigate to the folder

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Removable Storage Access in the left pane



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3) Now double click the option All Removable Storage classes: Deny all access in the right pane as highlighted above

4) In the All Removable Storage classes: Deny all access window click the dot Enabled to deny access to all removable storage classes



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5) Click Apply and then OK button

6) Close Local Group Policy Editor window