A year or so ago I was in need of a USB storage device and found a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer on sale at Office Depot for $29.99 (a deal at the time). At that time I didn’t realize the drive I had just bought was U3 compatible. A short time after plugging the drive into my laptop and seeing the U3 launchpad, my curiosity took over. After a few minutes, I became keenly aware of the possibilities this U3/USB technology brought to my disposal.
The U3 compatible USB drives allow you to install U3 compatible programs directly to the USB drive. There is a whole array of popular programs like Firefox, Thunderbird, Avast! antivirus, password lockers, etc. that you can install on the USB drive and use from any computer without installing them on the computer itself.
