ReadyBoost helps your computer by giving it more high-speed memory. If your computer is running low on RAM then it has to kick a lot of applications out of high-speed physical memory to the paging file on your hard drive. This usually results in a big hit in performance and increased activity on your hard drive. ReadyBoost helps this situation by giving Windows an alternative to having to stick data into the slow paging file on your hard drive. Instead, ReadyBoost uses a USB storage device that is faster than a hard disk. This results in a performance boost because Windows will have a high speed alternative than using the slow paging file on your hard drive....
I've just started to use readyboost by pushing a 4GB usb stick into the port and configuring it to 'Improve system performance'. I can see its little light flashing, so I assume it is working. Is there anyway of measuring how much it is improving (or not) system performance. I have 2 Gb ram.
2) I have a 2 gig usb drive that im using with ready boost but I havent noticed a memor difference in my graphics applications.
3) Can I add more usb drives and use more ready boost to up my ram?
Im a noivce to Vista.. I am runing 2 gigs of ram on my laptop a dell (hell) and I have running - 3d max 7, photoshop cs3 extended and usually either IE or flock running to upload my images to the web. I have a 2 gig usb drive hooked up using ready boost - it is allways flashing.. any way to add another usb drive to use as ram? or overclock the 2gig usb stick?
I get the option to "Speed up my system using Readyboost" when i put a (4g) SD card into my computer, but then when i click it, there is no readyboost tab. It is my understanding that I have to enable this in the systems.sfc,buuuut.... I have tried cmd prompting sfc/scannow, and it tells me "You must be an administrator running a console session in order to use the sfc utility." Note: I am not trying to remote connect. I am trying to enable this locally on this laptop on this administrator account. Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit
I have a laptop with 2Gb, Vista Ultimate, and an SD slot I use for ReadyBoost. I currently have a fast 4Gb SD card, but noticed the price on 16Gb SD cards has gone way down. Would there be any benefit to replacing my 4Gb with a 16Gb, given that I only have 2Gb of RAM? Could ReadyBoost make use of it all? Would I notice any difference?
On my vista basic index score,there is one part letting my system down. Is there any software downloads to get it performing higher or it a case of new hardware.the part in question is 3D Business and gaming graphics performance 3:1.
How do I know if windows readyboost is working. i have 4gig flash drive and it even says enhanced for readyboost on package, but when I get to windows task manager it still only shows I have 2 gigs of ram. and I have all 4 gigs of flash drive used for ready boost.
my computer, running windows vista 32 bit, will not use ready boost properly, as i have a 1 gigabyte jumpdrive plugged into your standard USB 2.0 slot. Every time, however, i go to use ready boost on the formatted lank drive, it pops up this device will not work as a ready boost device, or something along those lines.
I have a flash drive that is enhanced for readyboost. When I plug it in to the USB port on my PCI card Vista says it does not meet the requirements. Is the drive the problem or does Vista require that the USB port be off the motherboard?
I have recently inherited two very old computers. I there anything useful I could use them for? For Example, it was suggested to me that I boost the HDD capacity,connect it to the tv and turn one into some kind of media server for my home where i could store videos,music, etc... What can old,slow computers be used for in general ?
I installed Vista after my XP became corrupt (long story...). Have noticed that it's using 510-560 MB RAM at idle! I have a total of 1024 RAM. If I get a 4GB ready boost compatible USB/flash card will it make a difference or is it a waste of money and only to be used if Vista is chewing up more than 1024 MB?
Recently, after varying times of general computer usage (internet, e-mail) ranging from 5 minutes to an hour, I'll get a BSOD, with the above title. I'll attach the dump files, and include the code from it below. I've tried some troubleshooting of my own. I've run memtest86+ on each of my 4 1-gig RAM modules, all clean. I've run Prime95, clean. I've installed new video drivers. I've run a diskcheck, and used Western Digital's diagnostic utility, clean. The culprit always is ntfs.sys. Should I try to repair my windows, or replace the ntfs.sys with a new one?. Also, I don't have any readboost of USB storage devices plugged in.
Code: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50) Invalid system memory was referenced. This cannot be protected by try-except, it must be protected by a Probe. Typically the address is just plain bad or it is pointing at freed memory. Arguments:
Arg1: fffffa610b3a9ff8, memory referenced. Arg2: 0000000000000000, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation. Arg3: fffffa6001219130, If non-zero, the instruction address which referenced the bad memory address. Arg4: 0000000000000005, (reserved) ............
My understanding is that a ready boost drive is a usb drive that vista uses to dump data to, rather than a hard disk as the readyboost drive is considered to be faster than the hard disk. So if my comment above is true, and I can now buy a 32gb readyboost drive for $70, is it a good idea to install games such as FsX onto a readyboost drive, and get better performance than using a HDD...
Have you ever heard the expretion "Oh my...Country kids going to town". Well...Country kid is here! I am very new to all this and kinda nurves. Hope I am doing this right. I have a laptop with Vista...recently got me a little virus "360"? or one of those Trojan dudes came over play without mom's permission. Got in lots of trouble!!! Anyway, I think I've got it all off but I am thinking that it needs to be defragged. Yes? No? Last night I decided to go ahead and start defragging. This morning it was still on the screen looking just like it did last night. I thought well stupid! did you click start? So I started it again...not sure what its doing? Know thinking maybe 360 or Trojan didn't go home like I asked them tooooo. Maybe?? I have ran all the disk clean ups and I use McAfee, they say the coast is clear. Here's were you guys come in...I was reading about installing Auslogics Disk Defrag and Auslogics Boost Speed. Do you thing this is something I should do or need?
I had an 8 gig stick I was using before and it was working fine. Unfortunately my nephew knocked over my laptop and bent the stick. I just purchased a new 16 gig stick and put it in but it doesn't seem to be working. The stick is readyboost capable but the light isn't flashing. Tried it on another computer and it worked there. When I bring up the properties and click the readyboost tab it is never enabled. I click enable and apply and it flashes for about 10 seconds and then nothing again. This happens everytime I open the preferences and also happens with the other stick I bought for my other computer.
I have a laptop with Vista, 2 GB RAM. Should I expect a performance boost if I use ReadyBoost? I have a built-in memory card slot that I never use, and I wonder if I should buy a ReadyBoost-capable card, stick it in there and use it to boost my computer. I use Home Premium and 2 GB was recommended, but will 2 or 4 GB available for ReadyBoost
I've just installed a USB flash memory drive that is capable of supporting ReadyBoost. After setting up the memdrive to use ready boost all it seems to do is sit there and blink it's little LED's heart out. Is this normal when using ReadyBoost or is there a problem here?? Aside from that, I don't see any changes or benefits to my system. Is there away to test/check to see if readyboost is functioning correctly??
Is ready boost doing anything when I don't use it with a flash device, or can i just turn it off in the service manager. If yes, what does it do? And if there was a flash drive would it then still have other purposes.
Added a 2gb pen drive in an extra USB 2.0 port on back of computer which indicates when I look at drive (right click> properties> ready boost) that ready boost is activated, cache set at 1810 mb, the maximum suggested by ready boost.
Yet, in Vista welcome center, only 1.87 GB ram shows.
How can I evaluate Ready Boost pen drive's addition to computer performance?
I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.
I am using a 2GB SD card for ReadyBoost, and want to know what is the best format to use for quickest operation. I've tried FAT, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS, but don't see much difference (except for available space!)
I have a Toshiba laptop with Vista Home Premium. I am attempting to use a Kingston Data Traveler thumb drive for readyboost. I do not get the "speed up system" page when I plug it in, nor do I have a readyboost tab when I click on properties for the drive. I have tried the thumb drive in another Vista machine and it works fine.
I've installed a couple of flash drives that are supposed to support ReadyBoost in Vista on a couple of my Vista computers, however I'm not seeing much on an increase in speed. I've looked at the Task Manager, but I'm not seeing any type of memory size increase either. How does this work? Would it be better to install more ram rather than this setup?
I'm running Vista Business on a 2.4 GHz AMD LapTop machine, 2GB of RAM. Many of the operations are quite sticky when compared to the old XP machine with 1 GB memory. I was wondering if ReadyBoost would bring some speed-up to Vista. I have seen no speed increase with my current 2 GB USB Boost sticks. Then someone pointed me to this Tom's Hardware page there they have evaluated Ready boost. To me it looks like ReadyBoost would never give even to these guys more than 2..3 percent of speed increase. And in some cases ReadyBoost even made machines with low 1 GB memory slower than without ReadyBoost. Any comments on this Toms's Hardware test, do they runs these tests wrong? I did not find any Microsoft based ReadyBoost benchmarks or anything. Currently I am more of thinking to downgrade operationg system to XP. I will not invest more on another 2GB of true RAM memory upgrade (not a USB Boost) if it is uncertain if even that would speed up this laptop.
