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How to Create a USB Recovery Drive to reinstall Windows 10
Recovery drive comes to rescue if your Windows 10 PC won’t start. If your PC fails to start or boot, then you can use recovery drive created for Windows 10 to get access to advanced options, you can refresh or reset your PC using... More of this article »![Image for How to burn Windows 10 ISO to USB Drive? [Updated]](https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ISO-to-USB.png)
How to burn Windows 10 ISO to USB Drive? [Updated]
If you’ve downloaded Windows 10 ISO using Media Creation tool, you can burn it to a DVD and install Windows. You can also burn this ISO to USB Drive and install Windows 10 on your computer using it. But, Setup will install much... More of this article »
Speccy Now Displays USB Drives Information Too
Advanced System Information tool from Piriform which shows statistics about computer hardware even for that of hard drives also including SSDs got an update- Speccy 1.24 now detects and shows attached USB drives information too. The... More of this article »
Malwarebytes Offering Techbench USB Stick for Automatic Malware Removal
Malwarebytes has announced launch of its USB stick named Malwarebytes Techbench for a price of $399.95/year as an introductory offer. Price seems pretty expensive, but this portable anti-malware USB drive aimed at technicians after... More of this article »
Use Avira Rescue System to Scan and Repair Infected Non-bootable Windows PCs
Avira has launched Rescue System for Windows PCs, available in ISO and exe format, you, even non-Avira users can download and burn this ISO to CD as well as to USB drive to clean and repair non-bootable systems, that are infected with... More of this article »
CopyToFlash Automatically Copies Specified Files in Hard Drive to Multiple Pen Drives Upon Insertion
Do you want to share recently happened function photos through pen drives to your friends?, instead of manually copying all files to one by one, you can use freeware and portable utility, CopyToFlash specially developed by a developer... More of this article »
How to Create Rescue USB Drive using Panda Cloud Antivirus
We’ve covered Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.2 has added Rescue Boot, Parental Control, Safe Mode and other useful features, of these, Safe mode and Rescue Boot are two important features, one lets you install Panda Cloud Antivirus even... More of this article »
How to Make Advanced SystemCare Portable Version
It’s a well known fact that IObit doesn’t offer a portable version for its popular program Advanced SystemCare on its website, however, you can still able to create a portable for it without using other third-party programs... More of this article »
Share USB Devices for Remote Access with DAEMON Tools USB
While it’s possible to share USB devices in a network and access them within that network, DAEMON Tools USB is a freeware app in beta phase lets you share your USB devices like printers, webcams, keyboard, mouse and etc. and... More of this article »
Take Control of Your USB Drives with USB Disk Manager
The most common removable device through which viruses spreads into Computers these days is Pen drive or USB flash drive, Windows Autorun gives the possibility for these viruses to easily enter into users Computers which is not a surprise-... More of this article »
ProEject Ejects USB Drives and Cleans Traces Left by Them on Your PC
ProEject is a freeware portable tool doesn’t also safely removes the removable drives such as USB Flash drive by closing running programs or open windows on the drive but also cleans registry and folders left by it if any on your... More of this article »
O&O AutoBackup Automatically Synchronizes Selected Files and Folders To a USB Drive
These days every Computer user has a USB drive won’t you agree? they’re so cheap they can be used not only in transferring files only but also as a backup device to your files and folders on hard drive, O&O released O&O... More of this article »
Create DOS Bootable USB Flash Drive with Rufus
These days neither floppy drives nor floppy diskettes are available which are used most of the times by PC users to create MS-DOS startup disks for Windows for troubleshooting or to flash their BIOS for update, these days they’ve... More of this article »
Set Access to Your USB Drive in Read-Only Mode with Wenovo USB Disks Access Manager
By default Windows allows to carry out Read & Write tasks to USB drives where there is a possibility of viruses in an USB drive entering into Your Computer and vice versa. Setting your USB drive for read-only mode makes it much... More of this article »
USBLogView lets you Know when you Plugged/Unplugged USB Device into your System
Recently we’ve covered how to backup USB drives and remove temporary files in them, if you ever want to know the details like when you inserted or removed your USB drive USBLogView logs and displays this information on its program... More of this article »
Auto Delete Temporary files like Thumbs.db in USB Drives with USBDriveFresher
Whenever you insert a pen drive to your/any other Computer, some files like Thumbs.db (these are familiar ones even in Windows), trashes, ds_store and other unneeded files will be copied to your USB drive, these are unnecessary files,... More of this article »
Backup and Restore USB Drives with USB Image Tool
If you store important documents, files and portable apps you use in your USB Flash drive it’s better to backup them occasionally useful when the drive is lost or damaged, instead of copying all the files in the drive you can use... More of this article »
Desk Drive Automatically Creates Shortcuts to USB Drives On Desktop when Connected
Obviously Desktop is the one that always visible when you minimize running apps and windows and user always tends to open lot of apps from shortcuts of them on desktop. Why to open My Computer to access contents of USB... More of this article »
Make your USB Flash Drives Bootable with MakeItBoot
USB drives generally aren’t bootable by default, however you can make them bootable with third party tools available on the internet, with bootable flash drive you can carry Windows PE bootable OS on it to troubleshoot and fix Windows... More of this article »
USBDLM, USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows
Windows sometimes fails to assign drive letters to USB Drive, there is even more problems with network drives in your Computer where drive letter conflict may occur between USB and network drives, though you can assign drive letter... More of this article »
ISO to USB Burns ISO Image Files to USB Drives
Current generation PCs with Motherboards allows to boot and install Windows or non-windows operating Systems from the USB drive, if your system supports booting from USB drive (check your BIOS settings) rather than burning ISO image... More of this article »
Download Firefox 5 Final Portable
Firefox 5 final is officially out and is the first browser to support “Do Not Track” for multiple platforms – Windows, Mac, Linux and Android . Mozilla boasts 1000 improvements in this release and is yet difficult for... More of this article »
Download Opera 11.10 Final Portable
Opera 11.1 final released with Opera turbo by adding support for Google image format WebP and loads sites faster on slower connections with better image quality, enhanced Speed Dial with Auto zooming allows to add unlimited... More of this article »
Opera Portable for Mac
A few months back Opera 11 installer added portable install option for Windows users, now Mac users’ turn, Opera now supports portable install option for Mac users, which means Mac users can carry their bookmarks, settings,... More of this article »
Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool, Makes Your USB Drives Bootable
Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool is an easy to use app helps the users to make their USB drives bootable. These days USB Drives or pen drives widely used by lot of people around the world, instead of using Bootable CD/DVDs it is better... More of this article »
Download Opera 11 Portable
With Opera 11 final arrival, It’s time to get your USB drive ready for Opera 11 portable, very useful if you won’t work from one place, without installing Opera you can take Opera 11 portable in pen drive with you and surf... More of this article »
USB Desktop Lock allows to lock & Unlock your computer with USB Flash Drive
We covered USB Safeguard which allows to protect files in USB drive with password, if you are looking to lock your opened apps and Computer with USB Flash Drive then you can use Predator. USB Desktop Lock is even better app than Predator... More of this article »
The New Opera Installer Adds Portable Install Option to Opera 11
Have you installed Opera 11 alpha into your Computer or are you looking for Portable build of Opera 11, Opera has added portable install option to their new Opera installer to install Opera 11 to USB Drives.So you can try Opera 11... More of this article »
USB Security Utilities, Control and Protect your USB Drives
USB Security Utilities is a free portable application for USB drives helps you to maximize the security of the data in your portable memory drive by handling various functions in single window such as virus scanner, file backup,... More of this article »
USB Safeguard 1.0: Password Protect Files in USB Pen Drive
Looking for free program for your USB Pen Drive which safeguards your data and also encrypts your files with password so that others won’t able to access them, then you should use USB Safeguard . USB Safeguard is portable allows... More of this article »
Quickly Remove USB Devices with USB Disk Ejector
Now USB Pen drives are used more often than CD and DVDs to transfer data from one system to another system.It is a routine procedure every user go though to remove pen drive by clicking safely remove hardware icon and then clicking... More of this article »
Trick to Format Your Pen drive in NTFS Format in Windows XP
Generally both Windows Vista and Windows 7 supports formatting USB drives in NTFS format, Where XP won’t. In Windows XP, we have the options to format USB drive in FAT and FAT 32 formats only. But NTFS file system offers more security,... More of this article »
Download Opera 10 Portable
Opera 10 with turbo technology makes surf faster on even on slower network connections and Speed dial gives access to websites from thumbnails. As I also covered tips and tricks of Opera 10 , opera 10 released quite few days... More of this article »
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14 Portables
Last time I covered portables of Firefox 3.5.2 and Firefox 3.0.13 , as Mozilla released Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14 which fixed several security and stability issues found in their previous versions.Portable apps website released... More of this article »
Trick to Delete USB Drive Viruses Automatically with AVG
AVG is the best free anti-virus program ever in my opinion, it not only removes viruses, spyware, Trojans, but it also detects and removes USB drive viruses very efficiently. As you know how dangerous these USB drive viruses are. As... More of this article »
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12 Portable
As Firefox 3.0.12 has been released which fixed several security issues and stability issues found in Firefox 3.0.11.Portable apps website released portable edition of Firefox 3.0.12. Advantages of using Firefox 3.012 portable: With... More of this article »Remove Data Permanently from Hard drives and USB Drives With Eraser
When you selling your Computer along with Hard drive ,USB drive to others just by formatting thinking that your sensitive information in hard drive and USB drive is erased.No it’s not, your sensitive data still be recoverable with... More of this article »3 Main Uses of Unlocker
There are cases where users struggled to remove some files and folders from their computer.You will get warnings that files can not be deleted due to they might have virus or it might still using the memory in the background . ... More of this article »![Image for USB Drive Problems and Solutions Guide [PDF]](https://techdows.comhttp://lh6.ggpht.com/_A8KQIv2PWHk/SmlIzkJusoI/AAAAAAAAELM/XmDCCDD7dIE/USBPendriveproblemsandsolutionsguide%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800)
USB Drive Problems and Solutions Guide [PDF]
There are many problems faced by users these days, due to dangerous autorun viruses from your Pen drive.I decided to compile a guide on USB drive problems and solutions from my posts on USB drives which helps you to know steps to protect... More of this article »
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 Portable
As Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 released which fixed several security issues and critical vulnerability found in Firefox 3.5.Portable apps website released portable for Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1. Advantages of Firefox 3.5.1 portable 1.With... More of this article »
Download Google Chrome 2.0.172.37 Offline Installer
As Google Chrome 2.0.172.37 released which fixed several bug found in Google Chrome 2.0.172.33.To reinstall Google Chrome when we require or to install it on multiple computers, we don’t need to have to internet connection... More of this article »
Download VLC Media Player 1.0.0 Portable
As Vlc media player 1.0.0 is released with new features and with new codecs to VLC multimedia framework looks impressive.Portable apps website released portable for VLC Media player 1.0.0. Advantage of VLC Media Player... More of this article »
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Portable
As Firefox 3.5 has been released looks speedier but crashing some times showing restore previous session dialog ,portable apps released Mozilla Firefox 3.5 portable which allows you take bookmarks,settings and extensions of Firefox... More of this article »
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Portable
As Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 is released which fixed several security and stability issues found in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10.You can now download the Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 portable from Portable apps website. Advantages of... More of this article »
Predator Protects Your PC with USB Flash Drive
We use accounts having passwords in Windows to prevent unauthorized access to our computers,every time you are away the session will be locked and you have to enter password to log into that session.How is that you have to plug USB... More of this article »
7 Solutions to USB Pen Drive Problems
USB drives are replacing CD/DVDs as people are preferring to use pen drives more often because of portability and maximum data storage possibility. As there are advantages of using these, there are also some problems too, these are:... More of this article »
How to Know a Pen Drive has Virus
These days viruses are infecting PCs more through pen drives than through downloading malwares.As the Auto run functionality bug in Windows is a boon to these viruses which modifies the auto run file in computer and making... More of this article »
How to Fix “USB Drive not Shown in My Computer”
This can happen to you, when you insert your USB drive to your computer, then Windows detects it, but does not show the drive icon for it in My Computer. The culprit here is Windows which is unable to allocate a Drive letter for... More of this article »