Preventing people from using own USB sticks?

I just read this article a few hours ago at work, and I though it's a pretty simple solution to your query.

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If strangers have physical access to your PC, it's easy for them to plug in a USB flash drive and make copies of your data. If you're using Windows XP SP2 or later, though, there's a simple way to prevent this from happening.

Go to 'HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevi cePolicies', create a DWORD value called 'WriteProtect' and set it to 1. You'll be able to read USB drives, but not write to them any more.

Here's the rest of the article 20 registry hacks to make your PC more awesome

I didn't read the first post carefully.

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