Nowadays, we all carry a pen drive to transfer our documents, photos, videos, and music anywhere we want. The way it works is very simple and fast. But do you know it can do much more than that. Here, I am going to outline several ways how you can put your pen drive to good use.
Increase System Performance
You can increase the performance of your PC by using the feature ReadyBoost which allows your external usb drive to works as an extra RAM.
Encrypt Your Data
You can secure your data from stealing with advanced AES-256bit encryption. You can assign a password to selected folders or entire Drive.
These are some of the links which provide this kind of protection:-
- www.penprotect.com
- www.usbsafeguard.com
- www.rohos.com/products/rohos-minidrive
- www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_le_download_center.htm
Pen Drive as Key to lock your PC
Some applications Like Predator lock your system when you are not there, even if your Windows session is still opened. It uses a regular USB flash drive as an access control device. With the USB drive plugged in, you can continue to work, but as soon as it is removed, the screen darkens, the PC locks, and keyboard/mouse input is disabled. Plug it back in and normal usage is restored.
PC on Pen Drive
There are several versions of Linux, such as Xubuntu, puppy Linux are so light that they can run entirely on a pen drive. They have very minimal hardware requirement, which makes them blazing fast, even on older machines.
This gives you an advantage that you can carry your computer with you in your pocket.
Currently, Windows don’t have support for this, but Microsoft will soon be launching a new version called ‘Windows 8 On The Go’.
You can download these OSes from following links:-
You can carry many portable applications in your pen drive just like the portable OS. For example Mozilla Thunderbird, Google Chrome Portable, Word web, etc. The Obvious advantage of letting you run your favorite programs off your pen drive when you don’t have administrator privileges on your office PC to install them. You will find a large collection of such free software on www.pendriveapps.com.
Recycle Bin for Pen Drive
In your pc, you have a recycle bin. So when you delete a file it goes into recycle bin instead go completely removing it so it lets you recover a file if you accidentally deleted it. But on a pen drive, when you click delete, you cannot recover it.
iBin is an exact solution for this. It continuously monitors your removable drive; if you try to delete any file, iBin will ask if you want to erase it or ‘Dump it to iBin’. This way, your file stays on your drive for now.
If you know any other great use of it then feel free to drop comments.
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