Posted by Lim on Jul 29th, 08 | Filed under
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USB devices such as flash drives may harm your computer. Some of the USB drives which infected by virus will automatic copy files to your computer when connected. So, i would like to teach users how to block certain USB devices to connect to your computer.
I had cover USBDeview before, which is a utility to view and manage all devices connected to your computer, no matter previously or currently. Now, i am going to use this utility to block known devices from connect to my computer.
Note: If you don’t know what is USBDevice, you may refer to my previous article.
Steps
- Open USBDeview, and you will get a list like below:
- Now, choose which device that you want to block from connect to your computer. For example, i want to block my Kingston USB flash drive.
- Right-click the device and choose “Disable selected devices”, or you can press F6 to start block the device from connect to your computer.
- After that, try to connect the USB flash drive to your computer, you will found that you will not get any menu popup, or any new removable device at “My Computer”. But, you still will heard device connected/disconnected sound when you plug/unplug it.
- You can always right-click the device and choose “Enable selected devices” or F7 to unblock the device.
download USBDeview | download from MediaFire
Posted by Lim on Jul 24th, 08 | Filed under
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app-stick.com is a website which collect a lot of useful portable applications. For example, you can get your portable Firefox, portable 7-zip, and portable Skype over there.
Nowadays, USB flash drive is a must have accessories for everybody. It is very common for everyone to have at least 2GB flash drive. So, why not install some portable applications to it?
Just go to app-stick.com, and you will get to know some free portable applications. In their main page, they listed out some of the popular applications such as Skype, Firefox, and Open Office. You can click and view portable applications of different category by clicking the link at your left hand side.
app-stick.com will not host any files. All the link will point you to the original website that host the application. Beside this, they provide a brief description for all applications, which is a good feature for those who don’t know about the applications.
I recommend users to download some System utilities to your flash drive. It may help you to solve some system problems. For example, you may download Avira Antivirus, “Autoruns” to detect any applications that run at startup.
Spent some times and you will find some useful applications there.
app-stick.com
