The security setup on the public computers at my library (part of the
Fairfax County system) doesn't allow U3 flash drives to work. Just
the "cd" portion of the drive appears. Recently, there have been a
few students with dead printers at home who were unable to print
their last minute papers at the library. I spent quite a long time
trying to help one desperate student. I now know that if you see the
U3 cd icon and no flash, you are out of luck.
David Newhall
Falls Church
On Jun 3, 2007, at 7:46 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
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From: Fred Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 3, 2007 7:43:10 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Memory stick / flash drive with U3 -- get rid of U3
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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