My flash drive of choice is the Cruzer Titanium series. A little more expensive that the Cruzer Micro's but if I threw this drive at someone it would really hurt. :D Anyway, the U3 stuff is very easy to remove. There's an uninstaller available here, http://u3.com/uninstall/ and if you decide you want it again, there's an installer available on the Sandisk site. If you keep an eye on deal sites, like Slickdeals & Fatwallett, you can get one for a pretty decent price. Right now a 4GB Cruzer Titantium is $20 shipped after google checkout @ buy.com. However if you have a MicroCenter nearby, http://microcenter.com/single_product_resu...d=0281032 That's pretty hard to beat right now. From what i've read, the flash drives from MC are pretty fast too.