How to password protect your USB flash device?

There has been a huge buzz about security for all USB flash storage devices, a tool which you wanted for securing the data stored in USB flash drives. Now, your wait is over as we will discuss about a tool wherein your USB flash storage drive will be secured after installing an ultra-small security software tool with which all your confidential and sensitive data will be secured. This protection can only be possible by triggering a password request whenever someone tries to access the USB flash drive which ensures that only you can open the files and no one else.

The USB flash security is the name of the software tool which will help you in securing your USB flash drive. To get this tool, all you need to do first is to download USB flash security from here. After you click on this tool, you can find that, there are 5 different versions to download, scroll down and select “Free (non-commercial/personal use) USB Flash Security Download” tool to download.

Now, after downloading this tool, all you need to do is to install it by opening the downloaded file with WINRAR. After opening the WINRAR file, double click on “USB ENTER SETUP.EXE

As soon as you click on “USB ENTER SETUP.EXE” you are now welcomed with a welcome screen in which you need to click on next and proceed to where you want to store this tiny application as shown below:

Now, after installing this application, a shortcut of this USB security tool will be available on desktop screen. Now, click on “USB FLASH SECURITY” icon and open it, as soon as you open this tool, all available drives will be listed in a window as shown below with the help of image:

As soon as you select the drive on which you want to install this suite, your drive contents will be completely deleted, so kindly back up all your data before you install this tiny suite into your drive. After clicking on “install” tab, you will have to confirm your selection by clicking on “OK” which is shown below:

After clicking on “OK”, a new window will be popping up wherein you will be prompted to add the password, confirm the same and also the hint just in case if you forge the password.

As soon as you finish entering the details in the above fields click on “ok” and proceed as again it will reconfirm the installation of the suite into your selected drive. Select “OK” and proceed again. Don’t worry if your USB flash drive renames into LABEL of “USBENTER” as it changes automatically to this name.

So you are all done, next time when you plug this USB flash drive, it will ask for the password which you have assigned to open it. Enter the password and there you go, you have successfully password protected your flash drive.

The two main functions of this suite are, one is you can obviously secure your flash drive and secondly you can also set a different folder wherein you can load all your secret files separately in the USB flash drive in which you have installed this software suite.

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My name is Subha. I’m interested in computer science, music and literature. Computers first appeared in my life when I was fifteen. Then I had got my first computer. I remember myself thinking, that it was the best thing in the world. I was playing it whenever I could but some time later, I noticed that I could do a lot more things with the computer, for example programming. So, I have started my graduation in Computer. Later i have decided that I can spread my knowledge among peoples. So, I have started blogging.