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Readyboost in XP

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Many XP users are desperate to use a feature like Vista Readyboost on XP. It seems in some cases that people hate to wait for a program to be released; which is a shame considering how the best things in life comes with patience. However, for those of you who can’t wait for programmers to release a simple application, you can use Windows XP unspoken Readyboost Feature.
NOTE: Before reading the info below, be aware that even though it may appear simple, most people don’t know how to activate this feature properly. As a result to the aforementioned, many don’t achieve the expected results -> [For these users, I advice you to be patient and to wait for programmers to do their jobs]-> ALSO, BE SURE YOU HAVE A READYBOOST COMPATIBLE FLASH DRIVE, otherwise, you won’t see any difference in Window performance (even though you can use this feature on any flask drive).
XP Readyboost Configuration: Keep Reading

Right click on My Computer , go to Properties, and then navigate to the Advanced or Performance tab.
After you have reached this point, follow the images below.
Readyboost in XP - Micro PC Talk Wiki
Readyboost in XP - Micro PC Talk Wiki
Readyboost in XP - Micro PC Talk Wiki
Once you have reached the screen above, select your flask drive, and add it to your virtual memory (paging size is up to you).
*It is recommend making a partition just for file swaping (if using a hard drive instead of a flask drive), so that system fragmentation won’t force the swap file to fragment as well. The max amount of swap per drive is 4GB, but you can put more by spreading it out across multiple drives. As far as size, a general rule of thumb is to use twice your RAM until you break 2GB on a desktop (CAD workstations and servers might require more), then use an amount equal to your RAM.


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Anonymous Dangerous procedure 0 May 21 2008, 2:45 AM EDT by Anonymous
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Unlike ReadyBoost, which allows you to remove the flash drive at any time without causing any errors, this procedure allows Windows XP to page out *active program data* to the flash drive, which means that sudden removal of the flash drive will likely cause a system crash or BSOD.

Furthermore, flash media have a fixed number of write cycles that ReadyBoost attempts to take into consideration. XP will not take this into consideration, and the heavy disk activity from paging operations may wear out the flash media sooner.
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didditdd pagefile.sys not on memory stick 2 Apr 14 2008, 9:32 PM EDT by Anonymous
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ant thoughts?
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didditdd ?Question? 3 Mar 15 2008, 4:48 AM EDT by Anonymous
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Followed your post, and it doesn't seem to be taking... I set my page file to the Memory Stick port with an initial size = 768, and a maximum size = 768. The currently allocated value still = 753 MB.
And there has not been a pagefile.sys created on the memory stick, it is still on the C:\ drive.....
Any thoughts on this????
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