USB ports:

USB ports can be disabled quite easily using the registry editor. There are two
kinds of restrictions you can put on a USB port a) disable write privileges to
USB port or b) completely disable USB ports

A. Disabling write access to USB ports: Open Windows registry editor and navigate
to the following key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\ Control\StorageDevicePolicies

Create a new DWORD, name it WriteProtect and put the value as 0. To allow write
access change the value to 1.

B. Disabling access to USB ports: Open Windows registry editor and navigate to the
following key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet \Services\UsbStor

Double click on the entry Start on the right pane and set its value to 4
(Hexadecimal). To enable USB ports again change the value back to 3.