Those are drives with U3 technology (look at http://www.u3.com/). Unfortunately they only work on windows. :-( I personally don't have it but would like to try to installing mplab on that. Regards, -- Chetan Bhargava Web: http://www.bhargavaz.net Blog: http://microz.blogspot.com On 7/9/07, wouter van ooijen wrote: > MPLAB portable. What a great convenience it would be to carry my > complete work environment, and all my projects, past and current, on a > flash drive. > > There are USB sticks with support software that claim to do this: you > application and its associated files on the stick, you leave no traces > on the 'host' system. Dunno how good it is, I have such a stick but I > wanted a 'plain' stick so I deleted that support software . > > Wouter van Ooijen -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist