how to use ready boost in windows xp.

in this update i will be telling you how to set up ready boost in windows xp, but to do so you will need one of two things either a usb flash drive, or if your computer can read micro sd cards those will work as well, now to set up ready boost in xp do the following:

1) plug in the usb flash drive or micro sd card and find out what drive letter it has been given.

2) press windows key + pause break to bring up the system propertys menu and go to the advanced tab, once you are in the advanced tab click on settings under the performance box, this should open up a box called performance options click on the advanced tab and click settings under vertural memory this will open a virtual memory window

3) in the vitural memory window find your drive and click on it, then click on the custom size radio button. now enter a size it must be between 2mb and 4990mb, and click set. if you deside not to do step 4 just click ok and reboot here.

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4) now delete the page file off your hard drive, then click ok and reboot. (note if you do this step you will always have to have your flash drive plugged in or the system may not boot, if you remove the drive after your system boots it will crash)

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[Boudreau2010]

if you did the worst it would do is give you a bsod just restart the pc with the stick in and all will be well.

[153Skyline]

NO IMPROVEMENT TO PC SPEED DARN I THOUGHT THIS WOULD WORK. OH WELL BACK TO THE OLD DRAWING BOARD.

[PaRoDiEr1993]

Virtual Memory's not Ready Boost. Why do people make stupid misleading videos?

[spartandubble17]

its great to be the firsts one to leave a coment on a video and you know what this video was actualy helpful. if i were to remove the flash drive would that be bad even though i have not deleted of my harddrive