ReadyBoost function: speed up windows 7 by using your flash memory as a RAM!

Well, your P.C has a low memory and it’s slow, also you don’t have enough money to buy a new RAM, but you have a flash memory, well that’s it!

Windows 7 (and vista actually) has developed a new function, before when you don’t have enough RAM the windows used the paging file functions, where they use part of the hard drive as a virtual memory, well, this could be good, but the problem is the hard disk virtual memory is slow, So Microsoft recently developed a new function, It’s the ReadyBoost function, where you use your flash memory drive as a virtual memory, it’s away faster than hard drive and cheaper than RAM, well, here are the steps to follow:

1. You’d better format your flash memory as NTFS , this is much faster

2. You should have at least 256 MB of free memory

3. Insert your flash drive to your PC .

4. Open my computer, right click on your flash disk and choose properties.

5. Under the ReadyBoost tab, you have three functions :
* don’t use this device
* Dedicate this device to ReadyBoost: uses the entire free space of your flash drive as a virtual memory
*Use this device: on this scale you can determine the amount you want to use as a virtual memory

6. When you finish doing this click on ok, and enjoy a speedy PC.