The AD-1112 software application allows you generate and add unique eight numeric character identification numbers that are added to each URL that is programmed. With the addition of a unique identification number embedded in each USB Web Site Director, your webmaster will be able to use this identifier to perform a variety of functions like tracking the usage of each device or customizing the page that is displayed. The software application provides password protection so that only authorized users can program the devices and also allows you to read the URL that has been placed on a device. The USB Web Site Director can be reprogrammed as many times as necessary. More than a novelty, the AdVantage Industries USB Web Site Director is a powerful tool! Stock Web Site Directors are available in a high-tech metallic silver finish but custom colors are available as well as a variety of shapes including round, square, triangular, or rectangular with key chain. Also, we feature a cylindrical shape without keychain which can be mounted on a mailer card for direct mail applications. Units are individually gift boxed.

Our USB Web Site Directors automatically launch your web browser by pretending to be an autorun lettered drive.  Your computer automatically assigns a letter to the Web Site Director when it is inserted into your USB port.  A problem can occur that prevents the Web Site Director from working on corporate networks where the “next assigned letter” conflicts with network drives.

In Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and OS/2, the operating system automatically assigns letters to floppy disk drives, optical disc drives, the boot disk, and other recognized volumes that are not otherwise created by an administrator within the operating system. Volumes that are created within the operating system are manually specified, and some of the automatic drive letters can be changed. Unrecognized volumes are not assigned letters, and are usually left untouched by the operating system.

A common problem that occurs with the drive letter assignment is that the letter assigned to a network drive can interfere with the letter of a local volume (like a newly installed CD/DVD drive or our Web Site Director). For example, if the last local drive is drive D: and you have assigned a network drive to E:, then when you connect a Web Site Director it will also be assigned drive E: causing loss of connectivity with either the network drive or the Web Site Director. To overcome this problem you have to re-letter your network drives to higher letters.

 Another condition that can cause problems on Windows XP is when there are network drives defined but in an error condition (as they would be on a laptop operating outside the network). Even when the unconnected network drive is not the next available drive letter, Windows XP may be unable to map a drive and this error may also prevent the mounting of the USB device.

Network drives should be assigned letters towards the end of the alphabet. This should be done to differentiate them from local drives: by using letters towards the end, it reduces the risk of an assignment conflict. This is especially true when the assignment is done automatically across a network (usually by a logon script).