Using readyboost to speedup Windows Vista or 7

ReadyBoost is a component of Microsoft Windows, first introduced with Windows Vista in 2006 and also included with Windows 7. It works by using flash memory, USB 2.0 drive, SD card, CompactFlash or any kind of portable flash mass storage system as a drive for disk cache.

ReadyBoost is also used to facilitate SuperFetch, an updated version of Windows XP's prefetcher which performs analysis of boot-time disk usage patterns and creates a cache which is used in subsequent system boots.

For a device to be compatible and useful it must conform to these requirements: * The removable media's capacity must be at least 256 MB—250 MB after formatting. Windows Vista x86 is limited to using 3.5GB (Vista x64 can support up to 16GB); this restriction has been removed in Windows 7. * Windows 7 allows up to eight devices for a maximum of 256 GB of additional memory. [5] * The device must have an access time of 1 ms 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.

Other considerations: * Vista SP1's ReadyBoost supports NTFS, FAT16 and FAT32. Windows 7 also supports the new exFAT file system. Vista SP2 does not support ReadyBoost for exFAT file system. * The initial release of ReadyBoost for Windows Vista supports one device. Windows 7 supports multiple flash drives for ReadyBoost. * Microsoft recommends the amount of flash memory for ReadyBoost acceleration be one to three times the amount of random access memory (RAM) in your computer. * If the system drive is a Solid State Disk (SSD), Readyboost is disabled since it would have little or no effect.

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[DeviousBurger]

This helped me out a lot.

Thanks (:

[VTProductionsPC]

im glad i helped ps Windows 7 u can have more than one usb stick and more than 4gb unlike vista was restricted one usb max 4gb

[bhavik911]

Ready boost comes on your computer vista or up

[jdc10]

where can i download this readyboost? can you give me link?

[ferdaws2000]

HI Mr can readyboost  help for play game?

[lixin96]

who im gonna do if it stand you disk dont have the power to speed up you computer??

[ExoTixGamingChannel]

how do u get readyboost?



[2142bf]

where did you get that background?

[MultiGTAgames]

I got windows 7 32-bit. Will a 4 GB flash drive be ok? Or does it need lower? I was going to add virtual ram to 3 GB cuz I got 2 GB.

[popstarfreas]

i really need help with this ..... well i was using ready boost then suddenly my usb got a little pulled out and i needed to format it . so i formated it without doing any settings ... and now it said that it isn't fast enough ??? is there any way to fix this?

[GreatKingMinos]

@GreatKingMinos sorry 8 devices, way off lol

[GreatKingMinos]

@VTProductionsPC I think the max for 7 is like 256 gbs and like 64 devices, its like, mindblowingly big.