1. A computer program product embodied in a computer readable storage medium for efficiently configuring different types of hardware components, the computer program product comprising the programming instructions for: recognizing a first hardware component out of a plurality of hardware components in response to a data storage device being plugged into said first hardware component, wherein said data storage device is preloaded with a plurality of profiles, wherein each of said plurality of profiles contains a configuration file associated with a particular type of hardware component and rules for presenting said configuration file to said particular type of hardware component, wherein said data storage device comprises a flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface; identifying a first profile out of said plurality of profiles containing a first configuration file associated with said first hardware component in response to recognizing said first hardware component; and presenting said first configuration file to said first hardware component based on said rules of said first profile.