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From: MZB on 11 Oct 2008 22:19 OK -- thanks for your suggestions. Staples matched the Circuit City Sale price, so I picked up the flash drive. My question: when I inserted the drive, a screen comes up that talks about their U3 system and there is a program called Launchu3.exe on there. What does this do? Does it xfer some of my programs like IE and other key programs so I can use these on another system. Or what? Mel
From: Daddy on 11 Oct 2008 22:28 Looks like you're responding to somebody's post. But since you started a new thread, who knows whom you're thanking and why? For info on U3: http://u3.com/ Daddy MZB wrote: > OK -- thanks for your suggestions. Staples matched the Circuit City Sale > price, so I picked up the flash drive. > > My question: when I inserted the drive, a screen comes up that talks about > their U3 system and there is a program called Launchu3.exe on there. What > does this do? Does it xfer some of my programs like IE and other key > programs so I can use these on another system. Or what? > > Mel > >
From: journey on 12 Oct 2008 01:22 On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:19:44 -0400, "MZB" <moo(a)noway.prudigy.net> wrote: >OK -- thanks for your suggestions. Staples matched the Circuit City Sale >price, so I picked up the flash drive. > >My question: when I inserted the drive, a screen comes up that talks about >their U3 system and there is a program called Launchu3.exe on there. What >does this do? Does it xfer some of my programs like IE and other key >programs so I can use these on another system. Or what? > >Mel I removed U3 from my flash drives. With U3 you can install programs on the flash drive that you can use on other systems without having to install them on the computer. It was fun playing with for a short period of time, but I didn't have a use for them because my apps are installed on my computers. There were a lot of useful programs about 1 1/2 years ago when I looked into U3. I think Open Office can run on a U3 Flash drive for example. U3 might be very useful for someone such as a student that would use the flash drive on a desktop system at home / dorm, and school computers when on campus. There is also a system or program called Migo that I played around with that you can Google to find more about if being flash-based makes sense for you.
From: Colin Wilson on 12 Oct 2008 08:34 > There were a lot of useful programs about 1 1/2 years ago when I > looked into U3. I think Open Office can run on a U3 Flash drive for > example. It can run on any, u3 or not - check out portableapps.com
From: RnR on 12 Oct 2008 09:04
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:19:44 -0400, "MZB" <moo(a)noway.prudigy.net> wrote: >OK -- thanks for your suggestions. Staples matched the Circuit City Sale >price, so I picked up the flash drive. > >My question: when I inserted the drive, a screen comes up that talks about >their U3 system and there is a program called Launchu3.exe on there. What >does this do? Does it xfer some of my programs like IE and other key >programs so I can use these on another system. Or what? > >Mel > It launches the U3 encryption for that flash drive. I have several of these flash drives and I like U3 but I've read many don't like it because it takes up some space on the flash drive. I read that U3 was going to be replaced by something else but I haven't verified this. Also as Journey mentioned in another post, I like "Migo" for encryption too. I'm using it for some files on my hard drive. I have not used it on any flash drives tho. |