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  Apr 6 2007, 09:47 AM
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I have a 512MB thumbdrive and I have a copy of Vista. My question is this: Can I use the thumbdrive as extra Ram for my laptop? If so, how do I do this? Any advice would help, Jesse -------------------- Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 l McAfee Total Protection l Super AntiSpyware Free Edition l AdAware SE Personal l Spyware Blaster l Spyware Guard l Safe Eyes 2007
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Apr 6 2007, 10:05 AM
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 Forum Addict Group: HJT Junior Classmen Posts: 3,202 Joined: 7-January 07 From: UK Member No.: 105,123 |
Hello,
Yes you can use a thumbdrive to increase speed, its called readyboost if the drive you plan to use is fast enough for readyboost, vista should ask you automatically when you insert it how much of the drive to use. the basic principle behind it is that the drive is used as an extra cache and use its superfetch memory management to speed things up Hope this helps -------------------- Regards
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Apr 6 2007, 11:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 418 Joined: 30-December 05 From: Rosemount, MINN. Member No.: 47,493 |
QUOTE(nigglesnush85 @ Apr 6 2007, 10:05 AM)  Hello, Yes you can use a thumbdrive to increase speed, its called readyboost if the drive you plan to use is fast enough for readyboost, vista should ask you automatically when you insert it how much of the drive to use. the basic principle behind it is that the drive is used as an extra cache and use its superfetch memory management to speed things up Hope this helps Will this increase storage space on my hard-drive if I choose? -------------------- Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 l McAfee Total Protection l Super AntiSpyware Free Edition l AdAware SE Personal l Spyware Blaster l Spyware Guard l Safe Eyes 2007
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Apr 6 2007, 03:24 PM
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 Who is running the store? Group: Members Posts: 1,843 Joined: 26-November 05 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 42,052 |
If you use the flash drive as extra storage, then you have an extra 1/2 G beyond what you have on your HD.
If you can use the flash drive as Ready Boost RAM (and you may not want to if it is actually going to make your system perform slower than using your HD for virtual RAM), then only when it is plugged in would it make any difference on how much of your HD is available for data storage, if at all. However, it may be that if you are getting to where you have only 512M of space left on your HD, or an extra 512M of storage is something you really need, you may start experiencing other problems. I believe most experts recommend that if you are using the last 10% of your HD, you will probably begin experiencing problems. --------------------  I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! |
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