Enabling ReadyBoost on Windows 7 and Vista

Windows 7 and Vista ReadyBoost feature is a unique technology to boost performance of Windows 7 and Vista operating system. ReadyBoost speed up technology works by using USB flash drive, memory stick or memory card as extra additional disk-based cache memory to speed up and boost performance of Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system, and improve system responsiveness. But however there are special requirements of external storage that will be used with ReadyBoost feature.

- The capacity of the removable media is at least 256 MB (or 250 MB after formatting).
- The flash memory devices must be capable of 2.5MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads spread uniformly across the entire device.
- The flash memory devices must also be capable of 1.75MB/sec throughput for 512K random writes spread uniformly across the device.
- The removable media device should have an access time of 1ms or less.
- The flash media must have at least 235 MB of free storage psace.
- Formatted as NTFS or FAT32 filesystem, both can make use a maximum of 4 GB of flash memory, which is the ReadyBoost limit, and in FAT32 case, the ReadyBoost.sfcache file size is also limited by FAT32 filesystem to 4GB.
- ReadyBoost supports one flash device at any one time as of currently.

4 Steps to Enable ReadyBoost Feature in Windows 7 and Vista

1. Insert the USB 2.0 flash drive (memory stick, thumbdrive, pendrive, key drive and etc) into USB port, or a memory card (SD, SDHC MMC, CF, MS, xD and etc) into a card reader.

2. On AutoPlay pop-up window, select Speed up my system using Windows ReadyBoost. Alternatively, if there is no AutoPlay dialog, right click on the removable disk drive in Windows Explorer, and select Properties. Then, go to ReadyBoost tab.

3. Select Dedicate this device to ReadyBoost option to use entire flash memory space on the device as ReadyBoost virtual memory, up to a maximum of 4GB.

4. Select Use this device and then specify to space to reserve for system speed using the slider bar or specify the value in MB in the text box below the option. Click OK. [via MDL]

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Posted: February 7th, 2010 | Author: Admin | Filed under: | tips tricks | Tags: enabling readyboost, windows 7 readyboost | No Comments »

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