When you Plugin a Pen drive, Your Pen drive had no response in PC or Pen drive not detected, then This post helps you to enable the USB ports in Windows Xp, Windows 7, 8 and 10 Operating System of your computer, Even when control panel is blocked.

Enable USB Ports Using  ( Registry Editor ) regedit :

These steps are to enable the USB ports in Windows Xp, 7, 8 and 10 Using (Registry Editor) regedit :

• Go to Run ( Winkey + R )
• Type ” regedit “, without quotes and click OK.
• Locate and click the following registry key : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesUsbStor
• In the right pane, Double tap the START.
• In the value box, type 3.
• Quit Registry Editor.

 

Using  (Device Manager) devmgmt.msc  :

• Go to Run ( Winkey + R )
• Type ” devmgmt.msc “, without quotes and click OK.
• Click on the Universal Serial Bus controllers. And Enable all the disabled ports.

To Disable USB Ports Using  ( Registry Editor ) regedit :

These steps are to disable the USB ports in Windows Xp, 7, 8 and 10 Using (Registry Editor) regedit :

• Go to Run ( Winkey + R )
• Type ” regedit “, without quotes and click OK.
• Locate and click the following registry key : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesUsbStor
• In the right pane, Double tap the START.
• In the value box, type 4.
• Quit Registry Editor.

Feel free to Comment below if you got any Issue or If you found some other ways to Enable or Disable the USB Port in your computer.