[Increase the Speed of your Pendrive / USB]

You may have noticed slow copy speeds with some pen drives. Here is a trick which help in increasing the speed or giving a speed boost to your pendrive.

Plug in your USB Drive.
Then Open My Computer> right-click on your USB Drive >click Properties.

Select your USB drive Under Hardwares and choose Properties.

You will see a dialog box saying ” Optimize for quick removal”.This option is selected by default.
Select “Optimize for Performance”option.
Now, remove USB drive and plug it again.
Copy some files from the drive to your system or vice-versa. You can notice the speed increase.


This trick may some times create write errors.But it will come in handy while copying files larger than a size of 1GB.

*Do it at your own risk*