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 :


Remember to change File System as "NTFS" when formatting.

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After formatting right click on the Pen Drive Icon again and click on the Properties. They go to the ReadyBoost Tab as following picture.


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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.

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