I recently bought a Sandisk cruzer micro 4GB USB stick and of course it comes with that U3 crapola preloaded on it. Formatting the stick does not get rid of it entirely.  If you click (in Windows XP) Start then Run then type COMPMGMT.MSC, click OK, then click Disk  Management from the window that appears, you’ll notice there are two partitions on...

I have a SanDisk 2 GB flash drive which I use quite frequently, but one of the biggest annoyances I have with it is the “pseudo-installation” of the U3 application every time I plug the device in. If this sounds familiar to you, and you want to remove it (like I did), then here are the instructions. I haven’t had the need to find out if you can...