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Upgrading your RAM will make your computer run more efficiently. Games, internet browsing and application speeds will increase.

1.) Plug your flash drive into one of the USB ports. Make sure you have no important files saved to the flash drive. The higher the memory on the flash drive, the more RAM you can add to you computer, however, certain computers can only use so much.

2.) Click Start > Computer > Right Click your flash drive > Properties



3.) Go to the Ready Boost tab and check the "Use this device." box. Now drag the slider all the way to the right, so you can use your flash drive to it's full potential. Click apply then Ok.


As you can see I have added 1902 megabytes of RAM, which is almost 2 Gigs.

4.) Now just to check if everything worked open up your flash drive and you should have a ReadyBoost file located inside of it.



And there you go your computer should now run more smoothly! Remember the more RAM you add the more of a difference you should see in performance.

Some IMPORTANT Things:
-The RAM added will not show up in your installed memory because it is "Virtual memory".
-Do not unplug your flashdrive while your computer is on, turn off before unplugging. Computer may crash if unplugged while computer is on.
-You can use as many flashdrives as you have USB ports.
-I recommend changing the name of you flashdrive to something involving "RAM" so you don't save any files to it.

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yeah my desktop said i needed 2.0 usb so i just did another method where you go to 'My Computer' click properties, advance system settings,performance then click settings, window should pop up then hardware and then virtual memory and just input how much you want/can.

oh okay thanks ill look into that program cheers

this isnt exactly ram its page memory. you dont even need a flash drive, your computer can store the page memory file locally, and performance increase all depends on your i/o speed

This slows down your RAM,

1) This is not RAM, this is Pagefile
2) Pagefile is stored on the harddrive
3) The harddrive is connected to the BUS system which has direct data transfer between RAM
4) The USB stick data has to travel through the USB bus before reaching the Data BUS, which slows down the pagefile usage.

your USB flashdrive is not suitable for ReadyBoost? There's a way around it.

Insert your previously unacceptable (for ReadyBoost) USB drive into a USB2.0 port. Vista will auto detect it, load device drivers and show you the auto play window. Ignore it.
Open up Computer from your start menu.
Right-click the appropriate Removable Media drive and select the Properties menu option.
Click the ReadyBoost tab.
Uncheck Do not retest this device. Click OK. If you skip this step Windows will retest the device and decide its not usable after all.
Remove the rejected device from the computer. We'll plug it back in shortly.
Open the Registry Editor (type regedit in the search area of the start menu).
If the screen goes dark and you get the user account control prompt, click yes.
Find this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\EMDMgmt
Inside the EMDMgmt registry key, all USB keys ever previously connected before are listed with an entry like: _??_USBSTOR#Disk&Ven_SanDisk&Prod_Cruzer_Micro&Rev_0.1#20042203920759B05025&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}_2253922835
Inside that long cryptic key there are some values you can control. You're interested in two of them that affect ReadyBoost.So locate a registry subkey that belongs to your USB flash disk. If you don't recognize the cryptic code for your USB flash disk (hint: it frequently contains the brand name), If you fail to recognize the name of your USB flash device brand or model, look for one where DeviceStatus = 4 (It failed the ReadyBoost check).
Double click DeviceStatus and change it to 2. (It just passed the ReadyBoost check )
Double click WriteSpeedKBs and it to 1000 (Decimal) or 3e8 (Hex). You could go higher but the results may be bad. Just don't set WriteSpeedKBs to 1000 (Hex) accidentally.
Put that USB flash back into the computer. Skip the auto play stuff.
Open Computer on your start menu just like before.
Right-click the Removable Disk drive corresponding to the USB flash device. Select Properties on the menu.
Click the ReadyBoost tab.
Select the Use this device button.
Click OK. You are now getting some benefit from ReadyBoost from your slower flash drive. You've gotten windows to behave in a way it wasn't designed to, albeit in an expected manner. Don't worry, it won't let you down with unexpected stuff - but if you're using your hacked ReadyBoost device the unpredictability will happen a little faster.


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This is a copy/paste from hackforums.net

If you unplug the USB before turning off your computer, it shouldn't ever crash your computer. It just caches a few items but it keeps them on the hard drive and runs them off your USB. Evidence that it runs off your USB is when it tells you that your USB isn't fast enough to use ReadyBoost

I'm really surprised people didn't know about this feature!

P.S. I have an external HDD which isn't fast enough to use it... I was gutted! :derp:

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