Gee, I didn't mean to insult.. but you mentioned "Did you restart the
ReadyBoost service?"... that mean, stop and start the service...

Anyway, no matter what I do, I'm still having this problem. Sigh...

Thanks for your help.

"MICHAEL" wrote in message
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Okay- I didn't say anything about stopping the service.
I'll take your statement to mean it is still trying to stop
the service- it's hung/frozen. You need to reboot.

Make sure the ReadyBoost service is on Automatic.
Restart your computer.

Now try some of the suggestions again.

-Michael

"Programatix" wrote in message
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Well, as I said in the first post, stopping the service will put it in
the infinite stopping condition. By the way, this does not happen to my
other machine.

"MICHAEL" wrote in message
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Did you restart the ReadyBoost service?

Pull the drive out and stick it back in.
I'll leave my general copy and paste
reply below, for a little more info.

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ReadyBoost can be a tricky thing to get working
on some flash drives, and a lot of flash drives
just aren't fast enough for ReadyBoost.

Try this first;
Go into Device ManagerDisk Drives
Find your flash drive. Double click it.
Policies tab.
Make sure "Optimize for performance" is checked.

Test again.

Sometimes even formatting the drive can do the trick.
Either FAT or FAT32.

Make sure it's not plugged into a USB hub.
Or, try plugging it into another slot.


ReadyBoost - Using Your USB Key to Speed Up Windows Vista
http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/arch...14/576548.aspx


"Programatix" wrote in message
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Well, the Ready Boost tab is missing... so can't really click the Test
button anyway. Sigh... anyway, I have 1.2GB of RAM.

"MICHAEL" wrote in message
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"Programatix" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm installed Vista on my laptop (no driver for the smart battery, so
Vista does not recognize it as a mobile PC). Anyway, I found out that
after several times of hibernate and suspend, Ready Boost will
suddenly stop working.

When this happens, the Property box of the drive, the Ready Boost tab
will be missing. Attempting to stop the Ready Boost service will make
Ready Boost to be in "stopping" condition infinitely.

The only way to solve this is to restart Vista.

Any idea?

I have seen the same behavior after Vista recovers from Sleep.
It's not all the time, but enough to be aggravating. I really don't
need ReadyBoost, I have 2GB RAM. But, I do find it helps a bit
when I'm running a virtual machine. Typically, if you have over
1GB RAM, you will not notice any performance increase using
ReadyBoost.

The easiest way I've found to get ReadyBoost working again-
right click your device and format it- either FAT or FAT32.
After the format, you may have to click "Test Again" a couple
of times.


Take care,

Michael