I bought U3; I notice that many of the portable apps here are not U3 compliant. The U3 launcher seems to me a good idea (especially if I am to pass these around to folks who have difficulty with Windows explorer). On the other hand, not clear it's R0eady For Prime Time. Would I do better to place additional orders for Plain Old flash drives and save the $10?
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The only real advantage to U3 is its autorun capability--the Launchpad comes up automatically when you put the drive in. To me, it's just as easy to throw a menu app like PStart right in the root of the drive. This way you don't have to do too much digging in Windows Explorer to find it.
If I were you, I'd save the $10 and go for the standard drive.
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Lauren She eats everything! It's like having a goat. A giant, two-Godzillaton goat.
maggie Hey, I resent that remark! I only weigh ONE Godzillaton!
~ Spectacles: Bruce's Story
I think U3 is just some bullshit, we dont need it, just put in Pstart, and make a autorun.ini, it worked for me
And U3 does not run on PC with restricted access such as GW university PCs. On the other hand, you can run a portable app from any PC.
So, I am selling my verbatim 1GB USB drive on ebay.
Charles
I bought a Sandisk U3 drive a few months ago and it gave me nothing but fits (of anger). I tried to create my own partition structure on it (ie: more than one partition) and no matter what I did, it wouldn't let me. I could do it under Linux, but when I stuck the drive in under Windows it got all freaked out because it wasn't what the hidden driver wanted the device to look like. I ended up sending it back.
If you want a thumb drive that the manufacturer controls, buy a U3.
If you want a thumb drive that you have complete control over, don't buy U3.
Has been the best about this so far. They allow you to unistall & reinstall the U3 platform. I don't remember hearing any other company doing that.
Personally I will decide which drive to buy depending on storage size, quality, & price. If it happens to have U3, I will simply uninstall it.
~Lurk~
~Lurk~
The problem is, you can't uninstall it. It's not like it's a program on the drive that you can simply go in and delete. The device emulates a cdrom drive and autoruns a program that installs drivers on the host computer.
If I had understood how it worked before I bought it, I would have never gotten it.
http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/u3/launchpadremoval.exe
You're welcome.
~Lurk~
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