Enable Readyboost in Windows 7

ReadyBoost is a component of Microsoft Windows, first introduced with Windows Vista in 2006 and also included with Windows 7. It works by using flash memory as a drive for disk cache.

ReadyBoost is also used to facilitate SuperFetch, an updated version of Windows XP’s prefetcher which performs analysis of boot-time disk usage patterns and creates a cache which is used in subsequent system boots

Instructions

Enable Readyboost

  • Insert your USB Key
  • On the autorun pop-up click Speed up my system(or right click on your usb key in “my computer” and select properties. Then click the readyboost tab)
Speed up my system
  • on the ready boost tab select Use this device
use this device readyboost
  • Then you can change the amount of space the readyboost feature uses

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3 Comments (Newest on top)

  1. Zac says:
    22/05/2010 at 5:15 am

    Helped! thanks.

    Reply
  2. kanna says:
    21/09/2011 at 12:35 pm

    it’s a non sense: how can an usb flash drive works as disk cache, since it’s many times slower than the hard disk itself?

    make sense to use spare space on hard disk to build a boot cache (after some boot analysis), but not using a flash drive, or readyboost is not working as described (or M$ has found a way to slow down hard disks so flash drives works better, lol)

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    • Ben says:
      22/09/2011 at 7:15 am

      Flash Drives are many times faster for small reads and writes that spinning hard disks.
      You can also buy different classes of flash drives for data transfer speeds.

      Reply

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