Windows 7 ReadyBoost

[leutententdann]

yeah but how do you format to exFAT!!!!

[Hodgy]

my computer specs

intel i5 750 - 2.5ghz bnut can go to 3.0 if needed

hd radeon 5850

4g ram

120gb spare on hd

when i play a game (apb) it runs very slow when i shut the game down, even though my computer is better than the recommended hardware.

my question is, if i buy a flash drive to allow for ready boost, will it help my computer run normally when i close the game down? or will it not make much of a difference?

thanks for any responce

[melandor0]

@Hodgy

Specs shouldn't be a problem. You need to format your computer. I'll chop my arms off for you if that doesn't solve it.

[Hodgy]

@melandor0 ok. but will ready boost be benificial at all or not? as i dont wana buy a flash drive it it will hav no affect to anything at all

[sidecharm]

What about vista

[TheCrazygamer81]

umm......i confused.....ready boost will increase the physical ram or the virtual ram?

[ericg54810]

it says i have to turn on sysmain or something to allow ready boost to work how do i do that?

[007kangkang]

@ericg54810 i have same problem with u,someone help us???

[Rome19ification]

ready boost has my computer running very quick even with my very slow network that im connected to.

does anyone know if you have a 3 or 4 gb flashdrive will that improve the performance more than a 2 gb flashdrive?

[jasdfghjklzxcvbnm]

@Rome19ification i think so

[teknotoast]

I use readyboost, however my computer doesn't restart properly when I keep the USB stick connected during reboot. The BIOS starts up, and then it goes to a DOS looking black screen that says "NTLDR is missing or invalid, press any key to continue".

Pushing the any key doesn't do anything until I disconnect the drive.

Would changing my boot sequence fix this?

[kinstar]

@teknotoast i think you might be able to disable your computer from trying to boot from ur flash drive. go into your bios and i think you might be able to disable your computer from doing that.

[jasdfghjklzxcvbnm]

@teknotoast your pc is trying to boot from the usb. you can fix this in your bios

[ilovmc]

Umm it says the Windows experience Index for hard drive is too high....its 7.0 can i still use it?

[IXI69IXI]

it really depends on the read/write times of the USB, you want higher read/write times to see a bit of better performance.

[MrDJKaram]

is it like updating RAM?

[pennenbakje1]

could please respond to this:

when i try to delete ready boost it doesnt delete it it says cant delelte file because its opened in a system please help

[muzicalman]

@pennenbakje1 you need to go in to Computer from "Start" menu and right click removable disk or whatever you called your memory stick. then click "Properties", click the "Readyboost" tab and check "Do not use this device".

[michaelbrzezinski]

I have the Sandisk Cruzer Blade 8GB and it doesn't work

[QuestimElite]

@michaelbrzezinski because its too damn slow, never get a USB 2.0 flash drive from Sandisk or Kingston, they are terribly slow

[qttytn]

It is important to format it in exfat or it wont use the maximum capacity of the drive

[Deviant125]

I have 512 mb ram, if I use ReadyBoost will I be able to upgrade to the aero?

[monsterabyss1992]

i have the same memory stick as you

[Interdiu]

I have a few questions: I'm using windows 7 HP, and I have 4 gb RAM. Is it still effective to put an 1 gb USB flash drive in? And, does the computer boot up faster with readyboost?

[SlashGnR09]

@Interdiu It won't make a noticeable difference, your initial 4gb RAM is plenty. Readyboost will probably be more effective on systems with 2gb RAM or lower.

[Interdiu]

@SlashGnR09

OK, thanks :D

[zacker2000]

this is a pretty nifty feature, since i have a class 10 16gb sdhc that im not currently usin, why not :)

[SteFFy7469]

Readyboost is so awesome, have a 2gb flash drive, a 512mb flash drive and a 1gb sd card all in at once. I'm impressed

[britdog3]

thank you so much for the format in exfat(: i bought a 32gb and i could only get 4094mb now it says 30552mb for ram(:

[shadowzard7]

does this effect my flash drive negatively?

[RxOLLER]

dose it work like a extra RAM for your device ? dose it affect your graphics or just temp. only ?

[MrLinolinares]

put in a 2gb sd card, made a significant difference alot quicker now. using intel celeron and 2gb of ram on toshiba laptop.

[inc2000glw]

...faster way would be to turn off Indexing for the MY DOCUMENTS FOLDER or even tougher the user account folder.

[jrhineberger]

one tip for this is most people say it dosent work it is because you have to use a fast drive right now i am usung a 4gb exreme sd card with 30mb per second most standerd memery cards only have 2mb per sec so thats why

[GovG33k]

Only works with USB 2.0 devices and must pass tests for available free space, write and random read performance. Recommended to reserve 1-3x the amount of RAM installed. Your drive must be at least 2.5MBps throughput for 4KB random reads and 1.75MBps throughput for 512KB random writes. Open the "Event Viewer" and drill down to: Applications and Services Logs, Microsoft, Windows, ReadyBoost, Operational. Look through the list of events to see the performance rating for a specific flash device.

[Justy330]

Also I like to add. Format your flashdrive to NTFS, Set readyboost to dedicated. What I've found from tests for windows 7 take the amount of physical motherboard ram and multiply that x 2. And that's the size of flash drive you need. Too go it faster. Go into device manager and in disc drives find you're flashdrive and go into policies and set it to Better performance. This is if you leave it connected permanently. If you have a usb port on the back of a desktop, set it and forget it.

[Justy330]

Readyboost doesn't save on the driver permanently from what I've seen it's empty soon as you unplug the flash drive. Yes it caches stuff to increase speed but also extends the onboard memory. If you have 1 gb of physical ram. And you open enough programs to exceed 1 gb. That extra is transfered to the flash drive. Also everything put on the flashdrive (readyboost) is compressed x2. So if you have a 4gb flash drive, that's 8gb of cache-ram. Win 7 also supports multiple readyboost drives vista not

[xxxvalidusernamexxx]

How do you delete ReadyBoost off of your flash drive?

[brinmb]

@xxxvalidusernamexxx Just click/mark 'Do not use this device.' and apply and ok.

[79boboso]

My laptops like when i got it or faster by putting the ready boost no more lag ,only if i can do this on my internet connection lol

[Andree6224]

If you wanna get Windows7 now, go to:

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[ChristianEvolution]

what format is optimal to format a flash drive with, specifically for the ready boost feature? is it exFAT?

[poplea227]

hi can you tell me how to download readyboost not inport for window me just say

[Musketeerable]

wats the format??? FAT or FAT 32??

[kakashi744]

Can I Stop using Readyboost? you Know How it takes memory on your flashdrive how can i remove the memory its using? like Restoring It back to Its Default

[chenchingwang]

@kakashi744 if you still need help, you can just reformat it and it'll remove the settings.

[BlueBellyfluff]

So if this only affects start-up and closing of programs and not during use...is this really a considered a performance boost? I would expect it to actually speed up processes when using a program.

[paperbachwriter1]

sandisk micro cruzer will not work???

[djaq000arkadian]

I have one quick question , I have a dual Windows 7 OS on my system , will the Ready boost dedicated USB can be also normaly use on the second OS without getting my index crackedup ?

[Ericiscutie]

Do you have to keep the flashdrive in the computer or can you take it out once it is finished?

[getconnectedtvshow]

@Ericiscutie Great question: ReadyBoost serves as a repository for non-critical files only, so you can remove the USB stick at any time without having to worry about corrupting system files, or crashing the entire computer. Reinserting the USB drive into the computer will allow it to reassume its ReadyBoost abilities automatically.

[Ericiscutie]

@getconnectedtvshow Thanks for your reply. (:

[Ericiscutie]

@getconnectedtvshow So if i take the USB out. I still have have the amount of RAM. Like I have 1 GB of RAM, and I wanted to put in a 4 GB flahdrive. If i put it in and used ReadyBoost and then took it out will it have 5GB of ram or do I have to keep the flahsdrive in to count as RAM.

[getconnectedtvshow]

@Ericiscutie These are technical questions that I am not really qualified to answer. Try messaging @TuneUp4Windows, I think they might be able to answer your questions regarding ReadyBoost. I hope that helps.

[anu7ho]

@getconnectedtvshow hey i didn't know what this was for and I added to to my psp's memory but it took a huge space! i had 3 gb left but now i'm left with 783 Mb and i wanna delete it, so when i try to delete it, it says this file can't be deleted because the file is open in system. So please help!

[anu7ho]

@getconnectedtvshow soory for that stupid question never mind it, it figured it out somehow

[2fast4all]

@Ericiscutie no it doesnt count as actual "system memory" but it will index your common used files so it loads programs faster

[tipoomaster]

@Ericiscutie

How would your computer use it if its not plugged in? You can remove it if you need it for something else, but it has to be in and set up for readyboost to work. And it doesn't count as more RAM, its more of a secondary swap file.

[adamp8810]

@Ericiscutie No, if you take it out, then your back down to your 1 GB

[Ignas359]

@Ericiscutie Readyboost GB dosent count as RAM

[SamyAdel9]

@Ericiscutie the flashdrive needs to be connected if you want the extra RAM.

[klymaxx2010]

@getconnectedtvshow how about if i removed and insert the same usb again, do i need to click again the ready boost option or not?

[klymaxx2010]

@getconnectedtvshow how about if i removed and insert the same usb again, do i need to click again the ready boost option or not?

[BritishRider]

@Ericiscutie For Readyboost to work you need to keep the flash drive plugged in. It uses your flash drive as a physical piece of hardware to boost the performance of your computer. As soon as you unplug your flash drive then all of the performance benefits from Readyboost are lost.

[ZeroCorpse]

Would've been nice to see some benchmarks or tests. All this really did was tell me exactly what's on the Windows 7 home page for ReadyBoost. Good promo, but not really any kind of feature review.

[getconnectedtvshow]

@ZeroCorpse We try to keep our reviews pretty simple and basic because we want to cater to everyday computer users. But your right - some benchmark or tests would help demonstrate how effective ReadyBoost really is. Thanks for your comments, your point is well taken.

[dan007iel]

@jayvin100 I hate annoying retards like you who obviously knows it works, but still asking to show off your hardware

Use common sense....

[TuneUp4Windows]

Hi Mike,

we liked your video that much, that we've featured it at our blog as video of the week. (blog.tune-up.com). Thanks for sharing and please feel free to suggest other videos of you and your friends to become the next video of the week. Only limitation is, that is has to be related to Windows.

Best, Alexandra

[getconnectedtvshow]

@TuneUp4Windows Thanks for featuring our video on your blog. We are now following your Twitter account, feel free to follow us back and we will certainly let you know when we post more Windows related videos.

Cheers,

The GetConnected Team

[TuneUp4Windows]

@getconnectedtvshow Great idea, of cause we will be happy to be up to speed on your Windows related videos. Let's stay in touch, Greetings, Alexandra

[getconnectedtvshow]

@jayvin100 I don't see why not, just google the name of your flash drive and windows 7 and you should be able to find out pretty quickly

[writtenaudio]

ok this is five star material i didnt even think about using my flash drive for this now i have 950 mb instead of 500 mb il have to figure if the performance is better or not well this is going in my favorites and its awesome

[john0022]

Does anyone know where on Windows 7 you can find how fast your ram or memory is running at 1066mhz or 1333mhz?

[Shamoon666]

Well, on my dell mini 10v with 1 gb of ram, I definitely feel the improvement with a 4 gb sd card dedicated to RB... On my desktop pc it's different, as it has 4 gb ram. RB is made to stabilize the performance of weaker pcs running win7, above 1gb of ram>U.S.E.L.E.S.S. But be careful netbook users, with its 6 cell battery full, I can use my netbook 7-8 hours no problem, but RB reduces it to 4,5-5...

[nagynanos]

tank u

windows 7 now veary faster

[jnnycliff]

@nagynanos Agree, however with Raptor and ddr3, it only took 25 seconds to boot. Very fast.

[afistvain]

no result? auuw..