A USB memory flash drive is a small device. Due to its small size, big memory and sturdiness provided by the hard cover to provide you liberty to move around and to do your office work from anywhere as you please, it is considered as most suitable means for data transfer. You can move around with your data in your pocket with ease and confidence. But there is much more this small equipment can do. Greg shultz has numerated at least 10 uses of the USB flash drive, in addition to the data transfer. Please read below to know about these fantastic uses.

Run portable programs

A USB memory flash drive is capable of running portable application programs like ‘open office’. This portable software comprises upon all the necessary applications required by anybody to carry out office work. It has word processor, excel, powerpoint and drawing software which are the basic tools for office work. Mozilla firefox and thunderbird can also be used from your flash drive. A combination of all these constitute your virtual office, which you can operate from anywhere, if you have a computer

Booting an operating system

At times, you may come across the need to boot some operating system from your USB. Luckily it is possible and there are methods to do this. If you follow the instructions properly, you can boot linux and windows xp from your flash derive. You can find the complete instructions to boot these applications in the articles ‘creating a bootable USB flash drive’ and ‘puppy linux teaches an old dog new tricks’ respectively.

Access to a wireless network

If somebody is using a wireless network, he can use the USB memory flash drive to copy and save the wireless network settings from window xp-wireless network setup wizard, or window vista- ‘windows connect now’. This drive then can be used to connect any other computer or compatible device like a printer or router, to the wireless net work. To seek detailed instructions you may consult ‘help and support center’ from windows xp start menu and windows vista start menu.

Make a password reset drive

To prevent misuse of our computers most of us use pass word. This password allows access to the computers only after the verification and authentication of the user. But, at times we forget our password, resulting in a lot of frustration and loss of time. A pass word re set disk is used to solve this problem. In windows vista a USB flash drive can replace a disk to perform the same function.

Enhance speed

A USB memory flash drive flash derives can be used to provide additional memory and thus increase the speed of a computer. The ‘ready boost’ technique makes available the memory on a USB for use with the memory on a hard disk. As the memory on a flash drive is quickly accessible than the memory of a hard derive because of no moving part it can speed up the functioning of the computer

To configure and use ‘ready boost’, connect usb flash drive to the computer with a vista system and follow the prompt on the screen. To learn more about this, read the article ‘how super fetch and ready boost work together ’

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