What’s on Your USB Key — That You Actually Use?

USB Key Peter and I had a brief IM chat about this the other night.

Mike Gunderloy touched on it in an article today.

You probably have a USB key full of “stuff” — but of all that stuff, what do you actually use on a regular basis?

I’ll start. I have a page here titled The Toolkit -v2.0. It lists a lot of software that I found (and still find!) useful to keep around in my day to day adventures. I assembled this list at a time when my laptop wasn’t working well and I wasn’t carrying it around very much.

At that time, I used a lot of the programs in my Toolkit frequently. Now? Not so much. I still frequently use Filezilla Portable and Password Safe and, of course, PStart. The rest of the stuff on there? Unless I’m out of town, I probably have it installed on one of my nearby machines.

How about you? Do you have tons of stuff on the key you hardly use? Only a few things that you use constantly? Somewhere in between? What is something you just have to have on a USB key?

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Nathan

August 30th, 2007 at 8:17 am · Reply

I use a 4 gig one that is chock full of utilities, but most of them are rarely used. Here are the ones that I use all the time:
Spybot Search and Destroy(I use it for it’s start-up list editor as much as for it’s spyware removal skilz)
Windows Defender
IE 7 installer
Adobe Reader
Quicktime
the Google Toolbar Installer
Firefox
Open Office
The PC-DeCrapifier(http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/) which is a great tool for removing all of the bloatware that comes on a new personal PC these days.
WinDirStat (http://windirstat.info/) which is a windows version of the Disk usage analyser in Ubuntu. Very useful on a server that is running out of storage.

That is most of what I use. I do a lot of new installs and re-formats at client sights, so that is why I use so many basic installers. Most of them are available as free downloads, but it is just quicker to install them from the fob.