I recently had to download and install some updated net files from MS
(netdot or similar) for my U3 to function properly.
These memory sticks have two portions and will load two drives on
your PC. One is the virtual CD drive that the U3 portion resides on
and the other is the memory stick volume itself.
There are some nice programs for FREE on U3, but a sizeable portion
are for pay. It allows people to plug a U3 enable memory stick into
a foreign computer and run programs off of it, instead of the host
computer. For those who travel, use Cyber cafe's it might be just
the thing for the vast majority of us it is machts nichts (Matters
not) type of thing.
Stewart
At 06:43 PM 6/3/2007, you wrote:
U3 USB may not install drivers on the local machine in the sense of
not putting commands in the registry to load drivers (whether the U3
drive is attached or not) and not writing the driver files to the
local machine hard drive, but the U3 package does have drivers
(dlls, etc.) in it which are surely loaded from the memory stick
into the computer's main memory when the U3 drive is inserted into a USB port.
Fred Holmes
At 07:25 PM 6/3/2007, Chris Dunford wrote:
><I not only don't care for the U3 "features," I don't want to load
up my system with any
>more drivers.>
>
>Just to clarify, U3 drives do not (or should not) install any
drivers on the local
>machine. The whole point of U3 is that it's completely
machine-independent. When you
>install a U3-compliant program on it, you can cart your U3 drive
to any PC and run the
>program without installation and without affecting the local
registry, etc. It's really a
>pretty neat idea, and in my experience it works very well indeed.
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