Readyboost Trick For Xp

[SrDriver]

Some into for using Readyboost in Windows XP.

Link To Web Site

Looks like they are using a 4 gig drive in the example?

 

[DmanWho]

Thanks for this tip. My son just reported back that this worked. He's running XP with only 256 ram, so every bit helps.

 

[Greggy_D]

I don't see how setting a swapfile on a USB Flash Drive would be faster than having a static swapfile on a hard drive.

 

[SrDriver]

Depends on the amount of ram you have and other factors.

If you have an extra USP Flash Drive laying around give it a try and post your results.

 

[Greggy_D]

I still don't buy it. A hard drive's transfer rate is going to blow away a USB flash drive.

PLUS...Readyboost caches programs/files onto the flash drive within Vista in conjunction with Superfetch. XP does NOT have this option and placing your swap file on a USB Flash Drive will NOT cause your PC to cache your frequently used programs/files within XP.

Calling it Readyboost for XP is just plain wrong.

 

[tmorris1]

I don't see how this will help either. All theya re doing is adding a pagefile to a slower flash drive.