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Annoyed with U3? You're not alone...

It's almost impossible to buy a USB flash drive without receiving it preinstalled with the now-ubiquitous U3 software.  While ostensibly making our lives easier, the software installs itself on every computer you plug it in to, whether you want it to or not.

Removing this feature is impossible easy!

Attached is the uninstaller that will render the drive U3-less.  I don't have to tools to put the software back on, so if you remove it and later find you wanted the functionality after all, whoops--buy a new one.

Download the U3 Remover software

Posted: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:39 AM by Andrew Marx
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Attachment(s): Uninstall_U3.zip

Comments

RyanVM said:

Does holding down shift when plugging in the flash drive work for disabling Autorun and keeping U3 from installing in the first place? I've never tried it on a USB flash drive before.
# October 10, 2006 6:22 PM

Andrew Marx said:

The U3 tricks the OS into thinking that a few megs of it is a cd-rom drive, thus triggering autoplay. Holding down shift while inserting the drive will bypass the autoplay, but it's annoying to have to do every time. I'd rather have the space back...
# October 11, 2006 1:11 PM
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