10 Clever Ways to Reuse Your Old USB Sticks and Flash Drives

i've got 10 things you can do with this old usb stick that you probably don't know about one of my favorite things you can do with an old usb stick is rescue an infected computer and to do this all you have to do is install virus software to the usb stick i recommend avg or bitdefender they're both free another great thing you can do with an old usb stick you can run portable apps games or utilities and portableapps.com allows window users to bring their favorite programs and files with them on a flash drive without having to boot into a new operating system and when you plug in that usb flash drive you open a separate portable start menu just a heads up not every application is supported if you want to keep your computer safe and secure you can use that old usb stick to create a physical key that locks and unlocks your computer when you remove or plug it in and to do this all you need is some software and one of the best ones is called predator simply install this on your device and now you have a usb stick that locks and unlocks your computer do you want to boost your windows experience and speed up your system windows has a cool feature that's called ready boost this enables a usb drive to be used as a disk cache to speed up read and write times however ready boost seems to work best on older systems like laptops or desktops another awesome thing you can do with an old usb stick is create a recovery drive all you have to do is select backup system files to the recovery drive then next after plugging in the usb drive choose it from the list then hit next then create now you have a drive you can boot from when your computer won't boot at all one of the most important things you can do with that old usb stick is to use it to sync your files automatically you can use tools like sync back sc and sugar sync to automatically synchronize your files and copy them to that old usb stick one of the top things you can do with that old usb stick is use it as a network drive most routers come with a usb port and you can use that usb port to attach your old usb stick and use it as a network drive and this usb drive will be available to all your computers on your network which is great for backing up files as well as streaming music and video if you want to try linux without installing it on your computer you can create a live linux usb you'll need to download universal usb installer and use this tool to create a bootable linux usb drive this tool allows you to download linux iso files automatically if you do a lot of traveling you can put important travel documents on that old usb stick for example you can scan your passports and then save them to your usb stick this comes in handy if you ever lose your passports another awesome thing you can do with that old usb stick is to use it to update your system software on your playstation 5. [Music] and unfortunately your usb stick cannot make you coffee or can it and guys now that you know 10 things you can do with a usb stick that you didn't know about make sure to hit subscribe like and share this video and i'll see you in the next video real soon peace