Vista - ReadyBoost drive never stops

I'm using a machine with 2gigs of RAM & recently plugged a little 1gig
Kingston USB drive in to use with ReadyBoost. The drive shows CONSTANT
activity. It's little blue light blinks almost all the time, even when
computer is sitting idle.

What's it doing?


Thanks,

Norbert wrote:
> I'm using a machine with 2gigs of RAM & recently plugged a little 1gig
> Kingston USB drive in to use with ReadyBoost. The drive shows CONSTANT
> activity. It's little blue light blinks almost all the time, even when
> computer is sitting idle.
>
> What's it doing?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>
>
With 2 gigs of RAM your getting little or no boost. Unplug it
and forget about it. I saw so little change is speed with only
1 gig of RAM that's what I did. BTW mine flashed constantly also.

gls858

There is always activity e.g. computer is never "idle". Readyboost works in
concert with Superfetch - Vista's virtual memory (page file) utility and can
be a max of 4 gigs. There is a Readyboost cache whether or not you utilize
an external memory device.

Readyboost also works in concert with "Readyboot" - the purpose is to
document page file use to modify boot behavior (faster?) after prolonged use
of Readyboost.

BTW : There is also "Readydrive" - works with hybrid drives.

"gls858" <gls858@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Norbert wrote:
>> I'm using a machine with 2gigs of RAM & recently plugged a little 1gig
>> Kingston USB drive in to use with ReadyBoost. The drive shows CONSTANT
>> activity. It's little blue light blinks almost all the time, even when
>> computer is sitting idle.
>>
>> What's it doing?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> With 2 gigs of RAM your getting little or no boost. Unplug it
> and forget about it. I saw so little change is speed with only
> 1 gig of RAM that's what I did. BTW mine flashed constantly also.
>
> gls858