Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Enable USB that has been disabled via GPO


Save the following as a batch file and run as a local admin account:


REM
REM


icacls c:\Windows\inf\usbstor.inf /reset
icacls c:\Windows\inf\usbstor.pnf /reset
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies" /v WriteProtect /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000 /f


REM
REM
REM
REM


Note:
This will fix the installation of SP1 for Win7/2008r2 that fails because of usb being disabled.