Effects of Disabling USB storage...

Hi all,

I was looking for a method to disable USB storage devices through GP and
came across the KB article 555324. One question does pop to mind before I
implement this: I'm wondering if setting this would affect other USB devices
such as keyboards and mice, and if so is there a workaround?

Thank you.


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Bill

Phillip
Fri Sep 23 08:48:38 CDT 2005

I don't think it will bother the keyboard and mouse since you are not really
diabling USB, you are only disabling the drivers for certain devices if I
understood the article properly.

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"bill" <bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5DEDA4D6-86A9-4C7D-A257-511DA835841D@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I was looking for a method to disable USB storage devices through GP and
> came across the KB article 555324. One question does pop to mind before I
> implement this: I'm wondering if setting this would affect other USB
devices
> such as keyboards and mice, and if so is there a workaround?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> --
> Bill

IWSEC
Fri Sep 23 08:58:01 CDT 2005

Hi,
Disabling USB storage stops the PC from being able to write\save data to a
usb attached storage device. All your other usb devices (keyboard, mice,
sound cards etc) will be fine.

Cheers Ian
iwsec
www.iwsec.co.uk

"bill" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was looking for a method to disable USB storage devices through GP and
> came across the KB article 555324. One question does pop to mind before I
> implement this: I'm wondering if setting this would affect other USB devices
> such as keyboards and mice, and if so is there a workaround?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> --
> Bill