Speed Up Your Computer For Free : Windows ReadyBoost
improve computer performance for free with usb ready boost feature
Your pc is running slow ?
Now you have a good and very useful solution for
speeding up your computer. Windows
ReadyBoost feature provides you a great feature to use your USB flash drive or
Memory card as a simple RAM module.
How to connect USB flash drive?
You can use any Memory
Card or Flash Drive for this ReadyBoost feature. (eg: 4GB,8GB,16GB etc).It is
not a problem if there are other files on the Flash Drive. It does not affect for
ReadyBoost. But there should be enough free space (about 3 gb). Therefore, remember
to check the free space before starting ReadyBoost.
How to ready for ReadyBoost
Firstly you have to format
the Pen Drive in NTFS file format. For that, connect your Flash Drive to the
PC, open the computer window, right click on the Pen Drive ICON and select
Format.
Note :
Note :
Remember to change File System as
"NTFS" when formatting.
After formatting right
click on the Pen Drive Icon again and click on the Properties. They go to the
ReadyBoost Tab as following picture.
If you are able to see the
phrase “Speed up your system by utilizing the available space on this device”, that
means your Flash Drive is ready to active ReadyBoost feature on it.
How to allocate memory?
You can see 3 Options (Radio
Buttons) in the ReadyBoost tab in Properties window.
1) Do not use this device
This option doesn’t allocate memory. It will deactivate ReadyBoost.
2) Dedicate this device to
RdeayBoost
This option will allocate entire memory of your pen
drive.
3) Use this device.
This option will give you a seek bar to choose the memory amount
allocate for.
After choosing an option,
click on the OK button. Then your Pen Drive is ready for ReadyBoost. Now you
can see a file named “ReadyBoost.sfcache” in the pen drive.
Note :
Now your computer is
boosted with ReadyBoost virtual memory. If you remove the pen drive, that
memory will be lost but if you connect again automatically readyboost feature
will start and boost your memory. And also you are unable to use the memory
that was allocated for the ReadyBoost feature until you remove those settings.
To remove settings, you have to go Properties à ReadyBoost tab and select the “Do not use this
device” option.