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Monday, August 9, 2010

ReadyBoost - speed up your Windows Vista or Windows 7

For Windows users, it's very common to face a slow response from the OS. Especially, when you open up lots of processes. But most of us need to work in that way. We need to browse the net, check the mails, run the anti-virus, use the MS-Office & we need to do all these together. Naturally, your PC or laptop slows down, unless you have a good amount of RAM working inside your gizmo. So, here is a solution that Microsoft provides you. But , you can avail it only if you have a flash memory card or USB flash drive of 256 Mb memory or more . Own one? Then, let's get started.

  1.    First, insert it to your computer. An Autoplay dialog box will come up.



  2.    Click on the Speed up my system option below General option.
  3.    It'll open up a new Properties dialog box. Go to the ReadyBoost tab.






  4.    Now, there are 3 options, as you can see.
        
              a.  check the Do not use this device option, if you don't wish to use the ReadyBoost device.

              b.  check the Dedicate this device to ReadyBoost option if you want Windows to utilize the        maximum available space on your USB stick or memory card. Don't worry, it won't do anything to the files you have there. The rest of the space will be used only.

             c.  check the third option, Use this device, if you want less than the maximum available memory in the device, to be used. Move the slider to decide the amount of memory.

 5. Click Ok.

That'll be all. But, remember,

      to speed up you computer effectively, your memory card or USB stick should have atleast 1 Gb of available space.You might be asked to free up a little bit of space in the device, if you don't have so.

      Best results are achieved, when you provide an available memory, double of the RAM of your computer.

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