Today I'm going to show you how to use a Windows 7 feature called "ReadyBoost". Using a standard storage device like a USB flash drive, SD card, Memory Stick and etc. you can boost your PC's performance.
http://www.instructa...indows-7-Featu/
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Boost Your PC With "ReadyBoost" (Windows 7)
Started By BDK, Dec 13 2011 02:17 AM
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 02:17 AM
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 03:58 PM
My desktop with 8gb is still too slow especially using photo processing software. May see about going to 12gb after the holidays.
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Posted 31 January 2012 - 03:49 AM
Broni, on 13 December 2011 - 03:43 AM, said:
That only makes sense if the computer has limited amount of RAM. 1GB or less.
USB as a RAM substitute has one serious disadvantage. It's very slow compare to real RAM.
USB as a RAM substitute has one serious disadvantage. It's very slow compare to real RAM.
ReadyBoost duplicates many of the smaller files already in the swapfile and copies them onto the USB drive, when any data from the swapfile is called for, Windows pulls it from the fastest source. As the access time on a flash drive is so fast for small, non-consecutive files, it allows the main swapfile (and the IDE/SATA channels) free to load the larger and consecutive file.
It rarely gives a noticeable boost to anything though, it's subtle, like a 0.5 - 7% speedup in loading a program as most of the work is still done by the swapfile.
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Posted 31 January 2012 - 04:22 PM
A note for others following this, the swapfile of Windows ME and earlier is called the pagefile.sys file in WinXP, Vista and Win7. Also known as Virtual Memory in the Performance settings.
