Easy Steps to Enable or Disable USB Ports

These are the top three ways that can enable or disable your USB ports in Windows. You can use each of them and there will be no certain risk of losing your personal data. Therefore, go through the post to know about it.

This is the most important trick for those who left their computer open for a while, and other people get access to the computer and with the help of USB, they steal data without prior knowledge. If you want to secure your computer without your presence with which no one can steal your data, then follow the three ways, so that you can block or disable all USB ports in your system but, later on, you can again enable it for your use.

1. Disable or Enable USB Drivers and Mass Storage Drivers Using Registry

I would prefer this method for everyone because it helps users to do the process of enabling and disabling the USB ports in fast, effective way irrespective of other methods, if the administrator is quite smart, the register setting will save more time.

Step 1. Go to desktop and press “Win Button + R“. Now  you need to type the command “Regedit” and hit the “OK” button

Step 2. Now you will be prompted to a window. So in that follow what is written

HIKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CURRENT CONTROL SET -> SERVICES -> USBSTOR

Step 3. Now you have just to find out START in the working area. In that, to Disable, just change the Value data with “4” or for Next time if you want to Enable your USB port again then Change it to “3” but remember after every task or changing the value Close your Registry Editor.

2. Disabling USB ports from Device Manager

The above method is the perfect way to disable USB ports on computers. However, if the above one failed, you can use another method of disabling the USB ports through the Device Manager.

Step 1. You need to Right Click on MY COMPUTER icon -> then select MANAGE

Step 2. Then you will see a pop up with windows similar to the above image now at left select the Device Manager.

Step 3. Now you need to find  Universal Serial Bus Controllers

Step 4.  Under Universal Serial Bus Controllers, select all the devices and with right click Disable all and see if it is working or not.

If the port was not working, then restart your computer. Don’t forget to enable that device later even after rebooting your computer.

3. Using the Third-Party Software

For disabling the USB ports on your computer after analyzing all the above steps and methods, if you are not satisfied then probably you need to install any third-party software on your computer so that it will block your computer’s USB ports manually with a program software download it from here.

The software can easily downloadable from the link here the USB Driver Disable / Enable, What you can do with the software? You can disable and enable your computer’s USB ports.

Use Microsoft Support for Fixing It

Now if you have seen that the USB ports are not working even after you have replaced the previous settings such as Windows Registry Editor then now you probably need Windows service support that is Microsoft Fix it 50061. Apply the setup, and it will fix your problems subsequently.

  

So these are the top three ways that can enable or disable your USB ports in Windows. If you need any help regarding the methods described above, you can ask me in a comment section below. I hope you like the post. Share it with your friends too!