FTP software - Page 2

27-10-2006, 08:17

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Originally Posted by Aragorn

I have just got a U3 enabled USB key (ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£16 from Play) and have Filezilla installed on it (as well as Firefox, Putty and others). Works a treat on any XP system. (more info on U3 here.

Just had a look at U3 - don't understand it....

Why not just use Portable Apps on a standard USB flash drive?

I don't see the advangate - I must be missing something or I've just seen through it as a marketing gimmick?

Aragorn · 27-10-2006, 10:00

The main advantage is that it's all integrated. You have a U3 launch app loaded automatically by XP, which allows you to load any of the U3 apps, upgrade them, delete them etc. I'm sure you could so it yourself but I don't think it adds much (if anything) to the cost and it's easy!

At the mo, mine has Firefox, Filezilla, Putty, a text editor, Skype, a cut down Avast for the disk, a password manager and Cruzersync. If I wanted I could also add TBird & OpenOffice.