10 Smart Uses of Pendrive Other Than Storing Data

10 Smart Uses of Pendrive Other Than Storing Data

We all use pendrives while transferring data from one system to another. You can transfer almost anything like photos, music, videos, movies, any software and more. However, there are many things a pen drive can do other than just storing data.

Yes, this small device can help you a lot in many situations regarding computers. Pendrive is much more versatile that you might realize. Transferring data is probably the most common use of Pendrive. But there are many capabilities that go well beyond storing and transferring files.

Want to know what more you can do with Pendrive? We are providing you top 10 ways to use the Pendrive efficiently. Let�s have a look.

10 smart uses of Pendrive

1. Lock and unlock your computer via Pendrive

People use screen password to protect data stored in computer, laptop. Sometimes it happens that someone ask for personal laptop and ends in accessing your personal information like documents, videos and images, thus provide some sort of password and code that is not known to anyone.

You can also apply a lock on your laptop with the help of Pendrive. Your laptop will not be unlocked until you use the Pendrive. There are various software available to do so like Predator, USB Raptor. If someone attempts to access your system, system will hit the epic message Access Denied.

 2. Run Portable apps, utility and games

Pendrive allows you to access applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, Chrome, OpenOffice and other application to be run directly from Pendrive to host computer. OpenOffice is the complete office suite that includes spreadsheet, presentation tools, word processor, database, drawing packages.

Pendrive helps you to keep everything right in your pocket. You can take any of vital applications with you wherever you are going with Pendrive. Not only this, you can also install the entire pre-packaged suite of applications which includes audio music, games, handy menu system and an antivirus utility.

3. Create Rescue Drive

There is no doubt that your pendrive is the ultimate saviour but you must know how to use it in the specific manner to get more from Pendrive. Computers, laptops are more likely to be affected by malware, systems files get corrupted, hard drive dies and many bad things can happen.

Whatever problem you are facing, you can easily fix it with your Pendrive. Many anti-virus, anti-spyware tools offer to create rescue drivers and CD for saving your computers in case when it not functions properly.

4. Run Dropbox or Google Drive on other PCs

Cloud is becoming more and more popular for storing data on the Internet and to do work in collaboration. If you want to access files, important documents from Google Drive while working on public computer, your Pendrive can help you out. Portable Dropbox or Google Drive must be available in PortableApps suite.

5. Turn your Pendrive in Virtual RAM Drive

If you are Windows Vista or Windows 7 user, you can easily turn your Pendrive into Virtual RAM disks that can help you if you are low on hard space and need some extra space. It is just an alternative as it will not replace real RAM.

6. Make your data confidential

Whatever you save on your computer can easily be encrypted so that no one gets a chance to steal your personal and confidential data. There are many popular encryption tools including TrueCrypt that offers a way to encrypt an external drive. You can also make use of powerful password managers including KeePass and LastPass to store and use password from it.

7. Use as Bootable device

Booting Operating System using CD or DVD is out of fashion. You can make use of Pendrive to create a bootable version of Operating system whatever you want on your system. You can easily install Windows 7 on your MacBook. You can boot Windows or Linux on your system but you need to be little bit technical to do so.

8. Maintain your Windows Computer

You can easily install software that would help you to reset Windows password, clone your system, partition your hard drive and more right from your Pendrive.

9. Connect to Wireless Network

If you are having wireless network, you can save wireless network configuration information to your pendrive. Further you can use your drive to quickly and easily connect another system such as connecting new system to wireless network or connect router or printer. You can learn more through Wireless Network Wizard that you can access from Start menu of Windows XP.

10. Run a website

You can easily run a web server that supports Apache, PHP, Perl and MySQL from your small USB flash drive, Pendrive. Visit Server2Go without any installation. It supports most common browser and run on all versions of Windows.