Comments on: Speed up Your Windows Vista Computer with ReadyBoost

By: liveman

liveman — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:31:14 +0000

hey thank you very much friend that’s cool

By: PJ

PJ — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:41:24 +0000

Hi All,
Yes ready boost can help even if you already have 4GB ram.
What ready boost does is move the paging file to the flash drive instead of the HD. Reading flash is quicker than reading the HD especially if the HD is already busy perhaps opening large files or programs.
When you already have 4GB of ram your computer just uses the paging file less, therefore it will use ready boost less.
install a gadget to watch you ram usage and when you see it start hitting 100% is when you will notice ready boost hitting your flashdrive.
The thing is you have to have some pretty memory intensive stuff going on for it to ever hit the paging file. I rarely see my ram usage go above 50%

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:51:06 +0000

Why do people not understand that computer speed is not purely reliant on RAM. If your CPU cannot perform quick enough, it doesn’t matter how much RAM you force into your PC, it will still be slow.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:24:59 +0000

Yes RS, readyboost will help even if you have 4G already. Don’t beleive me San? OK, go to Walmart and buy 4G of flash(MS recommends 1:1 ratio), Walmart will let you return it if it does not work. Enable Performance Monitor to monitor Readyboost and see for yourself. OK now appologise.

By: jow

jow — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:49:04 +0000

Ready boost is for those without much ram 512 or less, no point other wise and if you have 512 ram, add more. That simple for the cost of a readyboost usb stick you can have more ram. If you don’t know how to add more ram, go to crucials website and use there system scanner. Even microsoft admitted that ready boost was at most useless.

By: stikk

stikk — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:40:12 +0000

Hitting “Test” over and over worked! Thanks Jesse. I also tried NTFS formatting just before trying hitting test over and over again too.

By: johngazna

johngazna — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:16:13 +0000

Reformatting and compression worked. Yeah! I have a Kingston Data Traveler 4GB. Thanks.

By: Jman

Jman — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:52:03 +0000

added 2 GB of ram with a flash drive but I had to delete mostly everything that was on it to get it to work. I don’t see a whole lot of difference between 6 and 8 GB

By: fug22

fug22 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:54:26 +0000

i set up the readyboost and noting is happing its still slow

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:28:09 +0000

Hi Folks,

Was having similar problems as the rest of you. Have a Sandisk Mini SSD (8GB) card that I had placed in the card reader of my HP HDX9010NR running Vista Ultimate.

ReadyBoost worked great until I screwed something up (can’t remember what….reformatted to Fat32 maybe). The ReadyBoost tab woudln’t even show up when I clicked Properties.

So, How’d I fix it? Took advice from above and did a Full Reformat using NTFS at 4,096 (without compressing it). Once done, I took the card out, waited a few minutes, reinserted the card and whoallah!!! The Autoplay menu came up allowing me to “Speed up my system”.

At first the readyboost tab said it wouldn’t work so I hit Test Again (maybe even twice) and now it works like a charm.

There ya go. Hope it helps. Glad I found this page. I never would’ve thought to reformat to NTFS to get it working.

Thanks and good luck everyone!