Readyboost

Hi Brink.. I'm a little confused on something. I was reading about readyboost here in a tread. Now about a month ago, I disabled readyboost as you said you did because there was no need to have it running when your not using it. I'm always looking for tweaks to help performance and at the time I disabled readyboost, I was also making other adjustments. I have the timer I got from here on checking my boot time and noticed I had went from 82 seconds to 126 seconds or so. I didn't even consider readyboost as the culprit because after all, it only works using a flash drive, I thought. After weeks of trying to nail down the unfavorable tweak I did somewhere.... I read that you should not disable readyboost because it works with speeding up boot time. Sure as heck, yesterday I enabled it back and am glad to say I'm back to 88 seconds. I watched and noticed it the first time I booted after enabling it, racing through boot-up. Why is this and has anyone else you know had this happen after disabling readyboost?

Todd

Hello Todd,

I suppose it depends on what type (SATA or IDE) of HDD you have. ReadyBoost usually only truly helps speeds things up in Windows itself if you have a slower HDD than the USB drive. SATA is always faster.

You can read more details on what and how ReadyBoost works at the link below. Scroll down just a bit to the ReadyBoost section.

Windows Administration: Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 2

Hope this helps,
Shawn

awesome read Shawn, thanks.