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How to block a USB devices from connect to your computer

Posted by Dickey on Jul 29th, 08 | Filed under Application, Tips, Tutorial | 2 Comments

USB devices such as flash drives may harm your computer. Some of the USB drives which infected by virus will automatic copy files to your computer when connected. So, i would like to teach users how to block certain USB devices to connect to your computer.

I had cover USBDeview before, which is a utility to view and manage all devices connected to your computer, no matter previously or currently. Now, i am going to use this utility to block known devices from connect to my computer.

Note: If you don’t know what is USBDevice, you may refer to my previous article.

Steps

  1. Open USBDeview, and you will get a list like below:

  2. Now, choose which device that you want to block from connect to your computer. For example, i want to block my Kingston USB flash drive.
  3. Right-click the device and choose “Disable selected devices”, or you can press F6 to start block the device from connect to your computer.
  4. After that, try to connect the USB flash drive to your computer, you will found that you will not get any menu popup, or any new removable device at “My Computer”. But, you still will heard device connected/disconnected sound when you plug/unplug it.
  5. You can always right-click the device and choose “Enable selected devices” or F7 to unblock the device.

download USBDeview | download from MediaFire

View all USB devices on your computer through USBDeview

Posted by Dickey on Jul 25th, 08 | Filed under Application, Portable Apps | 2 Comments

USBDeview is a free utility which can list out all USB devices that currently and previously connected to your computer.

By using this utility, you can get more information on USB devices that connected to your computer. For example, you can get information about the device name, description, device type, serial number, last plug/unplug date, and much more.

For devices that currently connect to your computer, the icon’s color will turn green. For example, device Port_#0003.Hub_#0001 is currenlt connect to my computer, which is my mouse.

This utility is able to remove unwanted devices driver from your computer. It is a good utility especially you want to uninstall unused devices from your computer or you want to do a clean installation for the driver.

download USBDeview | download from MediaFire

How to create a desktop shortcut to remove USB devices

Posted by Dickey on Mar 25th, 08 | Filed under Tips, Tutorial | 5 Comments

If you use a lot of USB device, i believe you will use “Safely Remove Hardware” very frequently. But if you have a lot of tray icons, you probably need to take some time to find the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon. So, why not create a desktop shortcut to remove USB devices?

Step 1

Right click on your desktop and choose New -> Shortcut.

Step 2

Type “RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll” for the location. After that, change the name of the shortcut. I had rename it to “remove USB“.

Step 3

Remove USB shortcut

You had created your shortcut. Now you can double click it and remove and USB device as normal. This method works on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.

Note: If you face any problems when removing your USB devices, you can try unlocker.