Have You Ever Imagined what you can do with your USB Flash Drive except storing and transferring the Data. If the answer is NO, Then I am going to share some simple tricks which you can implement easily and make your working experience with USB much more interesting.
Assign an Icon: - Do you work with multiple flash drives simultaneously and want an easy method to differentiate between two flash drives. Then you should start thinking of assigning different icons to all your flash drives when you plug your drive in PC to make your work easy.
To assign a Custom Icon to Your Flash Drive,
Create a notepad file and rename it to autorun.inf
After that paste the following code in to your autorun.inf file
[autorun]
icon=autorun.ico
Now select the image which you want to use as your icon, Rename it to autorun.ico and paste it in to your flash drive. Plug the flash drive in to pc and your computer would automatically assign icon to your flash drive.
Backup Data: - Automatically take backup of your important Data in to your Flash Drive Every time you leave your computer. You can use a free tool called SyncBackSE to do this for you. You can download free version of this tool here .
Install SyncBackSE on your Computer and insert your Flash Drive which is F: in my case. Then create folders in your Flash Drive as shown in picture , you can name folders according to your choice
Now you have to select source folder of which you want to take backup and destination folder in your USB Drive where you want to store your backup as in following picture.
SyncBackSE gives you the option to select subdirectories so that you can select your important folders easily. After that hit the Misc Tab and schedule your back up. Also you can set daily email notifications so that you can know whether backup are completing successfully or not.
Boot Separate Operating System:- You can Boot a separate standalone operating system from your flash drive. You can download a free utility Damn Small Linux which is small standalone Linux operating system and will run inside Windows. If you want to Run Windows operating system from your flash drive then you can download Mojopack ($50/license) free trial.
Convert USB TO Mp3 Player: - Convert Your USB In to Portable Media Player by downloading and installing free Portable VLC Player to it. Copy your favorite songs to your Flash Drive. Just plug your drive in to any PC and Start Listening.
Encrypt Your USB Drive: - Save Important Data in your Drive in case it gets lost. Encrypt all your important data by using a free utility TrueCrypt .
After Installing, Select the file in your USB Drive which you want to Encrypt and then Hit Create Volume Button as shown in figure.
After that select Encryption Algorithm you want to use and then hit Next. TrueCrypt will ask you to enter a password which you will need to restore the encrypted file.
TrueCrypt will create a separate Encrypted volume which will contain all your sensitive Data
To Restore Your Encrypted Files select the volume you want to restore and then Hit Mount Button. Enter the Volume Password you created above and if the password is correct the select volume would be mounted and a virtual hard drive would be created to use. Once you are done with the mounted volume select Dismount All and the volume would be dismounted and encrypted again
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