Forcing ReadyBoost to Vista?
July 1, 2008 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
As I have reported previously, Ready Boost would help speed your computer by caching items in a thumb drive. However, not all thumb drives is Ready Boost ready as it requires high end drives with fast read speeds.
On the contrary, neovik has written an article which forces Windows Vista to read the thumb drive and use it for Ready Boost. I have yet to try this out as I do not have a thumb drive I am ready to get damaged in case that actually happen.
Anyways, these are the first 4 steps (Proceed cautiously and at your own thumb drive risk):
1. Plug in the device.
2. Access your device properties: Start Pearl > My Computer > Right click device > Properties > Readyboost Tab
2. Access your device properties: Start Pearl > My Computer > Right click device > Properties > Readyboost Tab
3. Select, “Stop retesting this device when I plug it in.”
4. Unplug the device.
Continue reading here.
Such a method only fools Vista into thinking that such USB drive are compatible. Expect no performance gains in such cases. You also risk losing data if you remove the device before shutting it down in Vista. In reality, you are not speeding up the operating system, since the computer is using the computer’s hard drive and not the USB memory for the Readyboost.