USB Flash Drive / Memory Stick / Pen Drive PasswordPod can be installed in the normal way on your computer using the downloadable setup program and of course includes an uninstaller to make complete removal easy. Better still, you can use the same setup program to install it onto a USB flash drive. This is a great way to make your login details portable between different computers as the program itself, together with your secure data and personal preferences are all stored on the memory stick. Just plug it into a pc in your office, library or wherever and you'll have access to all your private login data on the move. You won't need to have administrator privileges on those computers either.

To install to a USB flash drive, just follow the instructions in the setup program and choose between the two different types of installation. If you want to do both types of installation, just run the setup program again and make your choice.

Install Password Manager on USB Flash Drive or on Computer

Note that if you buy a PasswordPod license and have an installation on both your computer and USB flash drive, you'll need to enter your unique product registration code separately for each, as they store the registration details entirely independently of each other.

During the setup, you can choose to configure your USB flash drive to enable automatic launch of PasswordPod when you insert it. If you choose this option, the setup program will create a file called autorun.inf at the root of the flash drive. When you insert the drive into a pc, you'll most likely see a list of possible actions and you must choose which one to take. The action highlighted at the top of the list will be to run PasswordPod. Whether this list appears or not depends on the settings on that particular computer. If the computer is configured to skip the dialog, PasswordPod will launch as soon as you insert the drive.

USB Flash Drive Automatic Launch

When you're ready to leave the computer, it is best to exit PasswordPod properly before removing the flash drive to ensure that any changes to settings can be saved. If you do remove the flash drive without exiting the program first, PasswordPod will automatically lock your data and shut itself down. Make sure that you look at the system tray to check that the program is no longer running and the padlock icon has actually disappeared before walking away.