Sunday, April 8, 2018

How to block USB media on a Windows 10 machine?

I would like to block a USB device even if its drivers are installed on the computer. That is to say, I want to plugin the media and nothing happens so that a normal user is not allowed to see, write, or execute anything from this specific media, even if the drivers of the media are installed. Is it possible and how can it be done ?


I'm working on Windows 10 64-bit and I already tried to disallow autorun by changing the local policies but the USB media is still accessible when I plug the media in.


EDIT :


I enabled the "Turn off autoplay" policy in the local group policy editor (Computer Configuration/ Administrative Templates / Windows Components /autoplay Policies)


I also modified the policies in Computer Configuration/ Administrative Templates / System / Device Installation / Device Installation Restrictions . Here I enabled "Allow administrator to override device installation restrictions", "prevent installation of removable devices " and " prevent installation of devices not described by other policy settings"

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