U3 Not-So-Smart Drive
Roughly a year ago, I bought a SanDisk Mini Cruzer 2GB. It was love at first use. With 2GB on a memory stick, it meant never having to say good-bye. The constant choices of selecting which files had to go, so the new files could move in, was over — there was now room for everyone. The world was a happy place.
A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a great buy at Circuit City — a cute little retractable 2GB Micro Cruzer. I was overjoyed until I plugged my new beauty into my laptop. What was this? Software was automatically installing! There was no stopping the install; my love died instantly. Every time I used my new memory stick, I had to wait for the software to install; so I just stopped using it. Finally, I discovered the U3 Smart Drive uninstaller and life is good again! I could not be happier.
I can only hope that U3 chokes its own creation and dies. There is nothing cool about software that cannot be turned off.
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I lost my 1gig mini cruiser and I'm sad. Still no idea where it is.
I hate USB drives that drive to install software because students bring them into the lab and can't use them because of security settings that block software installs... it's frustrating for the students... but I have to worry about security...
It should be illegal to install software without permission. It would put an end to a lot of stuff like this.
Oh the pains of being an early adopter... ;-)
Sorry to hear about your trouble. I have it from a good source that the new version of the U3 system will have a choice for the user to set if it should auto-start or not. Until they make that feature available, holding down the shift-key when you insert the device will not start the system.
Also, the U3 system doesn't "install" anything on your system. It does place some files on the hard drive during runtime, but they are all deleted when you remove the device.
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