How to Write-Protect USB Flash Drive

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Many a time, it becomes necessary for us to write protect our USB flash drive so as to protect it from viruses and other malware programs. Because flash drives are so popular and most widely used to move data between computers, they are the prime target for attackers as a means to get infections spread around the computer world. Also, since USB drive is not a Read-Only Memory (ROM), the data inside it can easily be modified or deleted by malware programs.

But unfortunately, most of the new flash drives do not come with a write-protect feature as the manufacturers wish to cut down the cost of production. Hence, the only way to write-protect your USB flash drives is to enable this feature on your own computer.

This can be done by adding a small entry to the Windows registry which acts as a switch that can be enabled to make use of the write protection or disabled to allow write access. Just follow these steps:

1. Open the Registry Editor (Open the “Run” dialog box, type regedit and hit “Enter”).

2. Navigate to the following Registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\

MICROSOFT TRICKS

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MAGIC #1

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER

[ The name “CON” in windows is reserved for console devices (Keyboard if used as input and Monitor if used as output) hence it can not be used to create any file or directory of this name.]

CHANGING PROCESSOR's NAME OF YOUR DESKTOP/LAPTOP

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We can easily change the name of the processor of our computer or laptop by this simple registry tweak.
Like you can change your processor name from Core 2 Duo , Pentium 4 or other to
Core i3, Core i5 or even Core i7

Steps:-
1)  Go to RUN
2)  Type REGEDIT
3)  Now go to " HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE "