Use Flash Drive to Speed Up Windows Vista
If you want your PC to run faster with Windows Vista , connect your flash drive to the PC with a USB 2.0 socket and when the autoplay interface comes up select “Speed up my system using ReadyBoost” .
Then you will be taken to a “properties page ” for the device where you can reserve a certain amount of space for ReadyBoost . You will need at least 230 MB of space in your Flash Drive and it should be fast enough to support ReadyBoost else you will get a message .
Now lets see what ReadyBoost actually does . No it is not increasing your RAM . Instead ReadyBoost uses the flash drive to store information that is being used by memory manager . It creates a a virtual copy of memory on the flash drive and since the Flash Drive is much faster than your hard disk , your computer will run faster . No whatever is stored in the Flash Drive is also in the Hard Disk so if you remove the Flash Drive , the memory manager will see the change and will begin to use hard disk . Some people might consider it as RAM replacement but it is not the case , RAM is much more faster than this but it does the job well .
I tried it on my system and the performance was worth noting . I actuallt tested it while playing games and experianced a higher Frame Rate , so do give it a try .
Wow..that was a very useful tip, btw does this work with XP, any idea? I think there are no options like this for XP.
Thanks for sharing this.
this doesnt work in XP
Yeah you can experience this when playing games, esp when your RAM is less
Interesting tip. I had heard about this in passing but hadn’t tried it yet. I guess I’m off to give it a whirl. Thanks!
This is possible now becuse vista is having native support for flash drives. Flash drive based hard disk can make vista perform much faster
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I am not too happy with Vista. I would say it runs 25% slower than XP, and it doesn’t seem to fair that we need to invest in additional hardware in order to boost performance. My hope is that in subsequent versions, Microsoft Vista development teams will do better.
to those wanting to do this in XP. : -
put in the flash drive –
note what drive letter it is –
right click on my computer, –
go to properties, –
go to ‘advanced’ –
click ‘modify’ under the heading ‘performance’, –
go to advanced tab –
click on the drive letter of your flash drive –
set space to use. -
Thanks for the info Dr .
That is awesome… I have already heard small talk here and there about this… but didn’t realize it was actually this simple to do. Thanks!