How to apply password protection on pendrive with c#

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Please Help! how can i apply password protection on a pendrive with the help of c# program . Thank you!

Suthish Nair · Answer

This not a simple task, you need to edit user system registry for usb protection. Remember to take backups before doing any registry edit.. Search for code to edit a registry using c# refer links... 1 , 2

vijay kumar singh · Answer

Yes I got the solution from your last post. here i ask for To protect USB drive on local machine only, from restricting user to upload or download any files?

Suthish Nair · Answer

Vijay, Before posting a thread, you need to be specific what you want. So we can give an exact solution. You need to protect USB drive on local machine only, from restricting user to upload or download any files? You need to restrict user to use USB's on specific machines? Did your last post that, i replied, got resolved?

Jaganathan Bantheswaran · Answer

Hi, As Sam said, instead of using password we can use encryption technique it will be better.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

You could encrypt and decrypt the data using cryptography in Windows and .Net. Look at the articles in this web site for help with that.

Jaganathan Bantheswaran · Answer

Hi, We can. But wait for some days. Try for you.

How to apply password protection on pendrive with c#

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