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Does a USB Pendrive make system changes?

When you plug a USB pendrive into a system, namely a win2000 system. WHat changes does it make to the system?

Are any drivers installed, any software loaded, hidden?

So when i take it out, is the system EXACTLY as it was before i plugged it in?

Thanks

Dan
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No

when you plug it in when your machine is on, you can see itis installing the device, its getting the driver from the OS (win2K) as this is supported on the OS and is contained within. If the OS did not hjave the driver it will ask you for it, so yes it does make a change to your system, and when you take iot out, it will still have acknoligment of the fact that the USB device was in the system before.

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U both seem to have given the same answer, and is what i thought it probably was anyway.

My college lecturer thinks he's a brainiac and is always sayin how many hours he spends maintainin the little test network in this room. He seems to think that USB pens are evil and "install bits of software all over the machine". What a loser? He's even gone as far as banning their use!! Only because he's afraid to admit that floppy disks went out of fashion for transferring data back in the stone age. I'll continue to use mine until he finds a way to lock them out, which he probably won't be able to do cos he can't see past his beard!

Thanks all

Daniel Aldous-Critchley
Hi again

LOL

Evil, wow, some serious issues there, lol

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i'm not sure how to split points between users, so i'll be giving to philby11. First come first serve basis
My thanks go to huseyin1 as well

**Off to buy a hedge trimmer for my lecturers beard!**

Bye all
Dan