I've not had any trouble with U3 drives, but I don't like them. The pop up drives me nuts, I hate the "helpful launcher". At least one can uninstall U3.

Been thinking about a flash drive. What this really makes me thing though is why we don't have a good transfer cable for pc to pc file transfers. USB can't do it, and the only other solution is networking... which can be a pain.

Well I got to say this usb keychain device is quite useful if you dont want to carry a laptop.I only use this for special reasons when my laptops not avalable and this handy device does the job done right. I give it a 8 out of 10.One thing though electronic devices like these can catch a virus I might add.What happens if it does will be a scary thought to even use it if it has been infected.My fellow members if this happens you know the prosedure throw it away before it enfects your pc because it happend to me once and I had a hard troubble getting the virus off the pc.If you dont know here let me give you a little gift of reading my post.(go to find.pcworld.com/58695 and find.pcworld.com/58697.there you will find the tip of wipeing out those infections.

I love portable apps, and I tried WinPenPak as it offers much more, but it was infected with a virus. I removed it, and I'm sticking with portable apps, and installing more from sites such as;

http://www.portablefreeware.com/,

http://www.portablefreeware.com/, http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-software-usb/,

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-software-usb/, http://lifehacker.com/software/portable-applications/,

http://www.caseytech.com/18-portable-apps-that-every-tech-needs/,

and

http://www.pendriveapps.com/.

Thanks for a GREAT ARTICLE!