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USB Flash drive or thumb drive are popular know for transporting the files from one computer to another. However there are many such things that you can do with the USB drive which is unique and exciting. Today I will take you through some of such features that are unique to this flash drive.

Pocket Gaming Without a PSPIf you are one of those who travels with his PSP all the time and hates the time it takes to come up I would suggest you to have a look at you USB drive once again. Actually you can install the games on your flash drive all you have to do it download the game and install it with the help of MAME.

Run Portable application on the computerWith the changing time we all want to be as mobile as possible and want the world to travel with us. Developers very well are aware of this concept and thus want make portable software for the user. You can use the flash drive to carry the portable Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer along with its bookmark and favorites. Not only can you carry your browsers and favorites but you can also save your PST files thus you can keep the mail on the move.

Encrypting Your DataThese days when we are on move loosing the flash drive or misplacing flash drive is not new. Thus I would suggest you to encrypt you USB disk with the password so that no one can get break in to your important data.

Remove Virus from your computerIn case you come across a situation when you are not able to operate the computer because of a nasty spy ware or a virus please use the rescue CD from AVG that will help you to remove any dangerous virus from your computer. Not only you can make a rescue CD of AVG but you can install many small spyware remover on the flash drive and then latter use it with the infected computer to remove infection from the computer.

Installing Operating SystemNot all of us are comfortable installing the more than one operating system on the computer. It is known to all of us that multiple operating systems can cause problem. However with the flash disk you can overcome such fear of losing your computer to the system failure. With help of Flash drive you can install Linux and Windows 7. More over you can also install and use Linux on the USB disk itself.

Thus I would like to say that, it is wise to tweak a bit in to the flash drive so that you can get a bit more from it. Hope you like the information and will be helpful.