Vista - Readyboost...?

Daft question I know but what (in simple terms plz) is readyboost??
I have a 2 gig pen drive and seen a few posts mention this but what are the
benefits of readyboost and if it makes a difference then plz can someone
tell me how to sort/use it.
TIA
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Scotty©

/Scotty©/ said:

> Daft question I know but what (in simple terms plz) is readyboost??
> I have a 2 gig pen drive and seen a few posts mention this but what are the
> benefits of readyboost and if it makes a difference then plz can someone
> tell me how to sort/use it.

ReadyBoost uses a _fast_ USB flash drive. Many are not.
It is primarily intended to speed up systems that have marginal amounts
of RAM.

Visit http://google.com and into the search box type READYBOOST.

Hi Scotty,

It's basically using a USB thumb drive for memory caching. Pieces of code
are stored there for faster accessing when needed by the system. These can
be bits of code from recently used programs and data, or from bits that the
system is projecting you will want. It's slower than physical ram, but the
access time is higher than that of the hard drive (paging file) due to the
decrease in time needed to seek the data (a hard drive is actually faster in
raw read/write speed, it's the difference in seek time).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Scotty©" <wapbam@boogie.com> wrote in message
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> Daft question I know but what (in simple terms plz) is readyboost??
> I have a 2 gig pen drive and seen a few posts mention this but what are
> the benefits of readyboost and if it makes a difference then plz can
> someone tell me how to sort/use it.
> TIA
> --
> Scotty©

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi Scotty,
>
> It's basically using a USB thumb drive for memory caching. Pieces of code
> are stored there for faster accessing when needed by the system. These can
> be bits of code from recently used programs and data, or from bits that
> the system is projecting you will want. It's slower than physical ram, but
> the access time is higher than that of the hard drive (paging file) due to
> the decrease in time needed to seek the data (a hard drive is actually
> faster in raw read/write speed, it's the difference in seek time).

many thanks
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Scotty©

"dev" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
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> /Scotty©/ said:
>
>> Daft question I know but what (in simple terms plz) is readyboost??
>> I have a 2 gig pen drive and seen a few posts mention this but what are
>> the
>> benefits of readyboost and if it makes a difference then plz can someone
>> tell me how to sort/use it.
>
> ReadyBoost uses a _fast_ USB flash drive. Many are not.
> It is primarily intended to speed up systems that have marginal amounts
> of RAM.
>
> Visit http://google.com and into the search box type READYBOOST.

cheers Dev was gonna google it but thought I'd ask here first
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Scotty©

Ready boost, contrary to what many think, is not a replacement for RAM. It
acts as a super fast pagefile - in addition to the pagefile on your hard
drive. But, if you are low on RAM (less that 2 gig) ReadyBoost can help
you - depending upon what programs you are running.

I would still recommend additional RAM in lieu of ReadyBoost.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Scotty©" <wapbam@boogie.com> wrote in message
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> Daft question I know but what (in simple terms plz) is readyboost??
> I have a 2 gig pen drive and seen a few posts mention this but what are
> the benefits of readyboost and if it makes a difference then plz can
> someone tell me how to sort/use it.
> TIA
> --
> Scotty©

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ready boost, contrary to what many think, is not a replacement for RAM. It
> acts as a super fast pagefile - in addition to the pagefile on your hard
> drive. But, if you are low on RAM (less that 2 gig) ReadyBoost can help
> you - depending upon what programs you are running.
>
> I would still recommend additional RAM in lieu of ReadyBoost.

I have 3 gig of corsair xms pro ddr2 800 in my machine..was reading on here
and came across readyboost and was just wondering if it would make a
difference..guess not..thanks for the reply tho.
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Scotty©