Zach was an Author at Android Police from January 2022 to June 2025. He specialized in Chromebooks, Android smartphones, Android apps, smart home devices, and Android services. Zach loves unique and ...

Actually, some software can indeed run from a USB drive (a.k.a. flash drive). And that’s mighty handy, as it allows you to carry your favorite programs in your pocket and use them just by plugging the ...

Installing Windows from a USB flash drive is more convenient and faster than optical discs. Plus, if you have a netbook or another type of computer without an optical drive, you don't have any other ...

I am in charge of upgrading a small computer lab from Windows XP to Windows 7 and I'm having a hell of a time with it. One quirk of these computers is that they don't have a DVD drive, so I've made an ...

In a world where there’s too much to do — and too little time to do it in — we’re always looking for shortcuts. So when we stumbled upon a blog entry by Kurt Shintaku over on Windows Live Spaces that ...

Most people think of USB drives as nothing more than portable storage devices. For years, they were the go-to tool for moving documents, photos, and music from one computer to another. But with cloud ...

If when you download the Windows ISO image and try to copy it to a bootable USB flash drive, but receive the error message The file ‘install.wim’ is too large for ...

Porteus is a portable distro designed and optimized to run from removable media such as a USB flash drive, SD card or even ...