Some time ago I bought a 2GB USB memory stick /thumb drive / flash drive from
Micro Center, and it was a plain 2GB flash memory drive that just worked. Just
what I wanted.
Today I bought another one. The case is a different color and slightly
different configuration -- not a problem. The
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
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
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
