It used to be that the simplest way to boost system performance was to pop open your PC’s case and fit more RAM. Windows Vista contains a new feature that allows you to give your system a performance boost by doing nothing more that plugging a flash USB drive (known sometimes as a USB key) into an available post.
This new technology is called ReadyBoost and this allows users to plug a USB flash memory device into a USB 2.0 port on the PC and use it as a cache or virtual memory. The advantage of ReadyBoost is that it is much faster to cache to the USB drive than caching to your hard disk, speeding up your system and enhancing overall performance. ReadyBoost uses the USB flash memory device as a fast store for frequently accessed data, the average random 4K read from a flash device is about ten times faster than accessing the same information from the hard drive.
To make use of ReadyBoost you’ll need:
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Have a Windows Vista preloaded on your laptop, but the system is too slow? If you have Windows ReadyBoost-capable USB flash memory, you can speed up your PC in just a few steps.
The insufficient notebook’s and desktop PC’s main memory can cause operating system to run slow on these machines. The new feature in Windows Vista, called Windows ReadyBoost technology, lets users utilize a removable flash memory device, such as a USB thumb memory drive, to make computer more responsive. According to Microsoft, ReadyBoost can speed up the computer since it can retrieve data kept on the flash memory more quickly than it can retrieve data kept on the hard disk.
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