Vista Tutorial - Ready boost capable?

I just bought a Memorex 2 GB mini travel drive - USB 2.0. I asked the tech at
Best Buy if it would work with ReadyBoost, and he just shrugged his shoulders
and said, I dunno. Plugged it in (I have Vista Home Premium) and I got the
message, "This devise does not have the required performance characteristics
for use in speeding up your system." Clicked to have it re-test, and then
re-booted the system. left it in the USB port. Now, when I click on the
drive, it shows a ready boost icon, and that message no longer appears. How
do i know if this thing is working with ready Boost or not?

Open Windows Explorer, right click the USB drive and select the Ready Boost
tab. You should see a use this drive option and slider to set the amount of
space to reserve on the drive for RB.
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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"StoneColdChris" <StoneColdChris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought a Memorex 2 GB mini travel drive - USB 2.0. I asked the tech
>at
> Best Buy if it would work with ReadyBoost, and he just shrugged his
> shoulders
> and said, I dunno. Plugged it in (I have Vista Home Premium) and I got the
> message, "This devise does not have the required performance
> characteristics
> for use in speeding up your system." Clicked to have it re-test, and then
> re-booted the system. left it in the USB port. Now, when I click on the
> drive, it shows a ready boost icon, and that message no longer appears.
> How
> do i know if this thing is working with ready Boost or not?

"StoneColdChris" <StoneColdChris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>I just bought a Memorex 2 GB mini travel drive - USB 2.0. I asked the tech
>at
> Best Buy if it would work with ReadyBoost, and he just shrugged his
> shoulders
> and said, I dunno. Plugged it in (I have Vista Home Premium) and I got the
> message, "This devise does not have the required performance
> characteristics
> for use in speeding up your system." Clicked to have it re-test, and then
> re-booted the system. left it in the USB port. Now, when I click on the
> drive, it shows a ready boost icon, and that message no longer appears.
> How
> do i know if this thing is working with ready Boost or not?

Open the Reliability and Performance Monitor. Go to Start | type in
Reliability. Click on the link that appears at the top left. When opened,
expand the disk section section and look for writes to
X:\Readyboost.sfcache
Where X: is the drive letter assigned to the readyboost drive.

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/arch...14/576548.aspx

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> "StoneColdChris" <StoneColdChris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>>I just bought a Memorex 2 GB mini travel drive - USB 2.0. I asked the tech
>>at
>> Best Buy if it would work with ReadyBoost, and he just shrugged his
>> shoulders
>> and said, I dunno. Plugged it in (I have Vista Home Premium) and I got
>> the
>> message, "This devise does not have the required performance
>> characteristics
>> for use in speeding up your system." Clicked to have it re-test, and
>> then
>> re-booted the system. left it in the USB port. Now, when I click on the
>> drive, it shows a ready boost icon, and that message no longer appears.
>> How
>> do i know if this thing is working with ready Boost or not?
>
> Open the Reliability and Performance Monitor. Go to Start | type in
> Reliability. Click on the link that appears at the top left. When
> opened, expand the disk section section and look for writes to
> X:\Readyboost.sfcache
> Where X: is the drive letter assigned to the readyboost drive.
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/arch...14/576548.aspx
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]


Hey Rock... pretty cool. Admittedly, I'm not sure how the numbers relate to
system performance; I've got 2GB's RAM and am using 980K on the flash drive
for RB and it's using RB pretty much all the time. Thanks for posting this!

Lang