Use Flash Drive to speed up Windows XP
By Madhur Kapoor on Feb 7, 2008 in Tech, Windows
Windows Vista has a very cool feature called Readyboost which allowed you to use your Flash/Pen drives to boost your system performance. It allowed the use of Pen Drives as RAM in order to increase system performance. However, no such feature is available for Windows XP users.
eBoostr is an application that gives you the Readyboost feature in Windows XP. Using this application, you can use your Flash drives or hard drives as another layer of performance boosting cache for XP. You just need to plug in your Flash drives, select the amount of space to be used to speed up system performance. It gives the best results for frequently used applications such as office programs etc. It will be very useful for Laptop owners as RAM upgrade is quite costly for them. Some of its features are
- Smart caches frequently used applications and files for maximum performance speed up
- Supports both USB and non-USB removable media devices, as well as additional hard disks
- Allows up to 4 devices for simultaneous smart caching
- Cache file size of up to 4GB on each device
The free trial version gives you around four hours of functionality each time you boot up and full version is available for around $29.
via Sizlopedia
That is something amazing. If it works, it’ll be great.
Rakshit | Feb 7, 2008 | Reply
Interesting however, how much performance boost is there.
Free Games | Feb 8, 2008 | Reply
Are your comments not working? Or am I not able to leave multiple comments to the one site?
Free Games | Feb 8, 2008 | Reply
I would love to try performance enhancing apps like these in the near future. Moreover, it is free!
Syahid A. | Feb 8, 2008 | Reply
This is cool. I could have tried it as I do have a 4GB Kingston but not a computer. lol man.
Ashfame | Feb 9, 2008 | Reply
@ free games
I have tried it a couple of days. It shows improvement for application which we use frequently.
@Ashfame
Where do you blog from then?
Madhur Kapoor | Feb 10, 2008 | Reply
Very interesting…I am interested to change my OS to windows vista. Moreover, after I read many good feature of it. Thanks for the great information.
Jacklin | Feb 11, 2008 | Reply
This would be really cool, assuming it works and is free. Might try it sometime.
It would be much better if it was free, however.
Daniel | Feb 14, 2008 | Reply
You only have so many write cycles for a flash drive (typically 100,000) and this utility treats the flash as ram/swap which writes very often so I’d suggest not using a flash drive you care about.
This will toast your flash eventually. | Feb 14, 2008 | Reply
Why not use some space from the harddisk instead? Why prefer pendrive over a harddrive?
Shisir | Feb 16, 2008 | Reply
@Shisir
Pen drives are faster than hard disk drives.
Madhur Kapoor | Feb 16, 2008 | Reply
Also, a flash drive is a physically separate drive.
So there is no contention. You can read/write to both (hard drive and flash drive) at the same time.
Neflem | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
This is a cool feature….it work for xp…really i was looking for something like this for long ….thx
Anupam Dutta | Apr 19, 2008 | Reply
is it really working.?
if it is,is it harmful for the flash drive?and for the computer.?
tnx..
please reply here blitz_beat24_18@yahoo.com
thanks…
blitz24 | Jul 22, 2008 | Reply
It really works and won’t harm the pen drive
Madhur Kapoor | Jul 22, 2008 | Reply