Restoreu3.exe restoreu3.exe

My wife was going on a trip, handed me her old 2 Gb USB stick type mp3 player and asked me to install Firefox with her Favorites, Thunderbird with all her settings and recent emails, and an office suite, with all her documents from that week that she would be using.我的妻子去上一趟，我交给她的老2 GB的USB记忆棒型MP3播放器，并问我安装Firefox的与她的最爱，雷鸟与她所有的设置和最近的电子邮件， Office套件，与她所有的文件从周她将用。 Oh, and could I make sure it had a builtin virus checker as she didn’t trust the PCs she might be connecting to and wanted to stay safe.哦，我想确保它有一个内建的病毒检查，因为她不信任电脑，她可能会连接到和想留的安全。

My first thought was U3.我第一次以为是的U3 。 It’s the standard Sandisk Cruzer applications-and-file-handling mini operating system for their USB drives.它的标准的SanDisk cruzer应用和文件处理小型作业系统为他们的USB驱动器。 I figured there might be a way to transfer the system from my Cruzer to her mp3 stick. i揣摩有可能的方式转让系统从我的cruzer她的MP3坚持。 No such luck, of course.没有这样的运气，当然。 Just on the off chance that it might work, I transferred the files but attempting to launch U3 launchpad throws up the obvious error, you might expect - “The U3 smart drive capabilities of this drive have been disabled.就在起飞的机会，它可能工作，我移交的档案，但试图发射的U3 LaunchPad投掷了明显的错误，你可能会期望-“ U 3智能驱动器的能力，这个驱动器已被禁用。 Double-click RestoreU3.exe to enable U3 on this drive…”双击restoreu3.exe ，使这方面的U3驱动器… … “

A search for this error message on Google threw up just one hit in Dutch, but there was a link entitled “搜索此错误消息在Google上投掷了1个安打，只是在荷兰，但有联系的题为“ U3 on NON U3 Drive在U3对非的U3驱动器 ” which looked promising so I followed that, only to find a raging argument about whether U3 could be run on non-U3 drives or not. “期待有前途的，所以我接着说，只有找到一个熊熊的争论是否可以在U3上运行的非的U3驱动器或不。 One guy claiming that with a few hacks he has been able to install and run it on several cheap non-U3 drives.一家伙声称与数骇客，他已经能够安装和运行它的几个廉价的非的U3驱动器。 It all looked a bit hairy, so I abandoned that tack and headed back to Google to see if there was an open source option.这一切似乎有点毛，所以我认为，被遗弃的钉和为首的回Google ，看看是否有是一个开放源码的选择。 Incidentally,顺便一提， U3在U3 is a neat little system if you’ve got the right kind of USB.是一个干净小系统，如果您已获得正确的种的USB 。 There is, however, an alternative that seems to be even more versatile -有，不过，另一种认为这似乎更是多才多艺- http://portableapps.com/ . 。

PortableApps provides an open platform that works with any hardware - USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive etc etc. Their homepage lists the applications available and among them are Firefox, Thunderbird, and various others, including a version of Pidgin, the Instant Messenger application that mashes up various IM languages and lets you chat with users on different systems (hence the name), there’s also GIMP, which does something similar. portableapps提供一个开放平台，工程与任何硬件-U SB快闪磁碟机时， i Pod，便携式硬盘驱动器等，等他们的网页，列出了申请，并提供其中的F irefox， T hunderbird和各种其他人，包括一版本的洋泾浜，即时信使应用程序mashes各种即时通讯语言，并让您聊天的用户在不同的系统（由此得名） ，也有的gimp ，这是否类似。 The site also has ClamWin (antivirus) and a Notepad application as well as a port of OpenOffice.该网站也已clamwin （防毒）和一个记事本的应用，以及作为一个港口的OpenOffice 。 There’s even a version of the VLC media player, which handles just about every video type without having to resort to dozens of different codec downloads.甚至还有一种版本的vlc媒体播放器，处理公正，大约每视频类型而没有必要求助于数十种不同的编解码器下载。 The graphic on this post shows which apps come with the standard full install (the lite version is…lite).图形上显示，这个职位，其中应用服务来与标准完全安装（简洁版是…建兴） 。

It sounded just right.它听起来恰恰好。 Best of all, as they say, it’s FREE.最重要的是，正如他们所说，它是免费的。

It all installed quickly and easily, files and documents were neatly transferred and the virus definitions updated.它所有已安装的轻松，快速的档案和文件被整齐地转移和病毒定义更新。 So, U2 was great and I added a few of their mp3s to the drive for entertainment purposes, but for non-cruzers, it looks like U3 is redundant thanks to portableapps.com.所以， U2的是伟大的，我补充几句，他们的MP3到驱动器的娱乐用途，但对于非cruzers ，它看起来像在U3是多余的感谢portableapps.com 。 Regardless, after all the searching and installing the trip was canceled, so I really needn’t have bothered.不管怎样，毕竟搜索并安装之行被取消，所以我真正需要的不是有困扰。

I did notice a glitch while testing the system though.我并通知故障，而测试系统，虽然。 If you pull the plug before quitting the portableapps dialog in the tray it can trigger a memory dump blue screen, which requires a hard reboot on an XP machine.如果您的外挂程式之前，退出portableapps对话框，在托盘中，它可以触发内存转储蓝色屏幕上，这需要一个努力重新启动就一XP的机器。 Not a big issue, just remember to quit before pulling the USB out.没有一个大问题，只是记得要退出之前，拉的USB 。

What do you use your USB thumb drive for?你怎么使用您的USB拇指驱动器？ Weirdest answer wins a prize, just leave a comment below, nothing too lewd though, please this is a family show! weirdest回答赢得了奖，只是留下一个评论下面，没有什么太猥亵虽然，请这是一个家庭的节目！