We all heard of Microsoft's new OS - Windows Vista. It brings many new things. Including ReadyBoost. Let's see... you want to speed up your PC? You can't afford some hardware changes? You have Vista? Here's something for you. ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost is used to cache some files on your flash memory (flash memory on a USB 2.0 drive, SD card, CompactFlash, or other form of flash memory). With ReadyBoost, random disk reads with performance that is typically 80-100 times faster than random reads from HDDs. This caching is applied to all disk content, not just the page file or system DLLs.

Requirements

- The capacity of the removable media must be at least 256 MB (250 after formatting)
- Devices larger than 4GB will have only 4GB used for ReadyBoost
- The device should have an access time of 1ms or less
- The device must be capable of 2.5 MB/s read speeds for 4 kB random reads spread uniformly across the entire device and 1.75 MB/s write speeds for 512 kB random writes spread uniformly across the device
- The device must have at least 235 MB of free space
- NTFS and FAT32 are supported
- The initial release of ReadyBoost supports one device

How to Use

1) Plug in your flash memory device (I'll plug in USB 2.0 flash memory)
2) Go to Computer
3) Right click on your flash memory device

4) Click on properties

5) Go to ReadyBoost menu
If you can't use ReadyBoost on your flash memory, you'll get a menu like this:

My flash memory is loaded now (as you can see) and I can't use ReadyBoost currently.
If you can use your flash memory for ReadyBoost, you'll get this (I have to use Microsoft's screenshot
now).

By default, Do not use this device will be selected. Now, you select Use this device like in screenshot (but previously check how much space will you give to ReadyBoost to cache files on your flash memory). Click OK. You will probably have to wait a few seconds. ReadyBoost is ready! When you enter your flash memory you'll see ReadyBoost's icon there. It looks like this:

Close the window and work what you want Your system will be faster. You won't notice this on apps which don't use much resources.

How to Turn Off

1) Go back to Computer
2) Right click on your flash memory
3) Properties
4) Go to ReadyBoost menu
5) Select Do not use this device
6) Click OK
7) Wait a few seconds
8 ) Done!

Now you can again use the space you gave to ReadyBoost for storage. I think you can unplug the flash memory without turning off ReadyBoost and Windows will automaticly turn it off. I am not sure will Windows turn it off (I've never tested it) and I highly recommend you to follow the procedure (sorry for bad spelling) I wrote. You may use your flash memory normally again!

I think you enjoyed in this short guide how to increase your system's speed

Regards,

sosoe222

Great review!

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Thank you very much, Disko. I have tried to make this topic in this board but it says I don't have permission to created threads here

Great topic

Really useful, for sure

Thank you, Didas. Sorry for being offtopic, but why don't I have permission to post topics in this board?

Don't worry, no one except moderators do.

Because we prefer to have only very few topics in this section, but only very interessant ones

(instead of having many topics with only : "hey, look at this application! it's great!"

So, this one is interesting? Thank you I think I'll post more topic like this one

Moved to the tutorial section

cool topic

Thank you

About settings for SATA disk, there are risks like says it the message ?
Thanks for the response

I think you should post this in other topic I am using it currently, no problems encountered. There is risk, of course. Example:

You are working something. And suddenly, you run out of power. There's a risk that you will lose some data. But if you are on laptop with full battery, or you have UPS, you could regulary (sorry for bad spelling) turn of your PC and I suppose that you won't lose (or corrupt) your data then

Ok Thanks

Nice tutorial!

my new external harddrive automaticly did that.
it was nice because i now see the difference.

(external Harddrive = Maxtor touch 4)

I has a Maxtor too

Extremely good topic!  

Thank you guys

actually, u can do that with XP too. except for that its called "Paging file executive".

start->control panel->performance and maintenance->see basic information->advanced tab->perfrmance settings->advance->settings on the virtual memory bit and then configure.

if u have a fast dvd drive with fast dvd then insert first and then configure. a fast dvd can sometimes be as fast as accessing ram. anyway, RAM is probably the fastest memory in ur computer so always use RAM 1st and then paging file if ur running out of Random Access Memory.

That is not same thing. Pagefile is not same thing.

it is isnt it? readyboost jus takes memory from a removable device to be used as temporary memory. pagefile is the same except for that it could use ur hard-drive aswell as removeable devices..

but on the other i might be wrong. damn it!

Well yeah, but it's not the same.
Memory from removable device is a lot faster than HDD

That's the major difference

but anyway RAM is the fastest memory on ur computer so always use RAM b4 pagefile i say anyway...

Well.. computer does allocate RAM memory before pagefile :rolls eyes:

see, i told u that RAM is the fastest memory...