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Store and protect everything from cherished photos and videos to sensitive work files with the Cruzer Glide USB Flash Drive. The drive comes with SanDisk SecureAccess software, which lets you password-protect and secure files you want to keep private while permitting access to files you want to share. The compact drive features a red slider that glides shut to shield the USB connector. SanDisk products are constructed to the highest standards and rigorously tested. You can be confident in the outstanding quality, performance and reliability of every SanDisk product.
 
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Sandisk Cruzer is not for everyone
on January 23, 2010
Posted by: jmkyle
from houston, tx
Sandisk puts software on its' Cruzers to allow you to have software available to you on the road. The application software allowed, however, is not of your choosing and you must buy generic browsers, word processors and such. Unnecessary if you have a laptop or netbook or are using hotel computers. There may be a security advantage and if you're interested in that type of thing, you should check it out before buying.
The problem is that if you don't want this capability or the windows and GUI's that keep popping up when you insert the drive, you can't get rid of them. You can delete all system software on the drive but then you get dismount/eject warnings and it re-installs certain folders when you insert the thumbdrive the next time - not enough folders though for the Cruzer system to work again without re-installing other stuff so now you have a hodge-podge mess on your drive and those incessant warnings and pop-ups to kill all the time when all you want to do is see the files on your thumbdrive.
If you just want a simple flashdrive to drag files to and from, almost everything else is a better alternative because this is really annoying. Too, it's not easily clear (to me) which Sandisk products have this unwanted "take your important files along" nonsense on them and which don't. I believe the term to look out for is 'Cruzer' but I'm not certain enough of that to buy other Sandisk products and risk getting another toad.
I will say the drive has worked flawlessly. It is lightweight plastic and the retractable port is nice and not too common. Just be forewarned you are getting more than you bargain for if you're just looking for a simple thumbdrive to store files on.
What's great about it: Retractable USB port
What's not so great: The Cruzer software that comes on it you can't get rid of that takes up space, adds folders, keeps popping up windows
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Ease of Use
2 out of 5
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5 out of 5
5
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3 out of 5
3
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Hook up DVD player to computer monitor

Is it possible to hook up a portible DVD player to a computer monitor? Is there such a cable as a Svideo to DVI input or VGA?
No, not in the sense you mean.

But you can hook a PC up to the new LCD tvs which then make the tv your monitor. Since you can hook a dvd player to the tv, the dvd player is then showing through your 'monitor' on the tv.

But straight to a monitor, no.
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