Uses of USB flash drives

Although they were initially designed to store data and documents found in the usual USB programs or files of any type because they behave like any other file system.

The new devices integrate U3 for Microsoft Windows application menu, much like your own menu "Start," for organizing image files, music and more. For memories of other manufacturers are also collections based on free software as in the case of PortableApps.com.

The availability of USB flash drives at a reduced cost has led to be widely used for promotional or marketing, especially in areas related to the computer industry (for example, technological events). It is often distributed free of charge, sold below cost price or included as gift to purchase another product.

Typically, these devices are custom engraved on the surface of the USB logo of the company as a way to increase brand visibility and are commonly called USB flash drives or custom advertising. USB memory may not include pre-loaded data or carrying information (graphics, documents, web links, Flash animations or other multimedia files, free applications and demos). Some memories to preload data is read-only, others are configured with two partitions, a read-only and one that can include and delete data. USB drives with two partitions are more expensive.

USB drives can be configured with the Auto-restart (autorun) for Microsoft Windows, with which to insert the device automatically starts a specific file. To enable autorun is necessary to save a file called autorun.inf with the appropriate script in the root directory of the device. The autorun feature does not work on all computers. Sometimes this feature is disabled to hinder the spread of viruses and Trojans that exploit this system to boot.

Another use of these reports is that if the computer's BIOS supports it, you can boot an operating system without CD, DVD or even hard disk. Booting from USB memory is widely used in new computers and is faster than with a DVD-ROM. You can find Linux distributions that are contained entirely on a USB stick and boot from it (see LiveCD).

The high-capacity USB drives, like hard drives or CD / DVD is an easy way to make a backup, for example. There recorders and CD-ROM, DVD, floppy or Zip drives that connect via USB.

Furthermore, at present, there are audio equipment with USB ports to which we can connect your flash drive and play the music contained therein.

As a security measure, some flash drives have a chance to stop writing by a switch, as the old floppy disk tab. Others allow allocating a portion to hide by a key. Find out more details on USB Colombia