Speed up my computer in Windows Xp using flash drive

Clarifications

Looking over the information that Microsoft has posted on ReadyBoost, my impression is that it is just this side of a gimmick.

Here is a link to a white paper on the performance features in Vista:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/perfaccel.mspx

ReadyBoost basically uses the Flash drive as part of the virtual memory pool. ReadyBoost will provide the most performance improvement on systems that are memory starved with slow hard drives.

No, there is no similar feature in XP. However, if you properly configure your system, you don't need it either. If you have 1 to 2 GB of system RAM, and install a second hard drive that has just the page file (Virtual Memory) on it, your system will be running as fast as it can.

Chas

One of these magazines this month found about a six percent gain thru the vista feature.

I found RamDisk on a PC Magazine utilities disc, it supposedly puts the IE cache onto a virtual drive on the DRAM. My Computer shows it as drive Z:, it seems to stay empty. I put a new folder on it, but it was lost on restart, as they had cautioned.

I have always heard of using a dedicated drive dedicated to share pagefile and USB functions.

I was using some flash drives like my camera uses in pcmci holders without fiddling with address banks, etc., but I found out that their slowness was holding me to a snail's pace.

I now have a nice pair of multi-gigabyte thumb drives which tested lightning fast at the magazine. (SanDisc Cruzer Mini&Titanium)

Instead of having Windows designate and utilize them, I keep them blinking by stacking up some of my "Multiply DISPLAY.SYS files inside their folders on them.

See:

http://groups.msn.com/pictureitlikethis

follow to the LINKS page.

Here's luck!
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i've got it on my laptop right now, not really sure exactly how much it helps but if your interested check out http://www.eboostr.com/. i know you can find it on torrentz.com also.

Windows XP doesnt have a USB "Readybooster" because it is old and shit.

thats why we have vista, upgrade to vista and u can have new technologies instead of trying to prelong some historic OS with better tools

Get over XP