My Laptop has 2gig and a FAST Thumbdrive and readyboost is a significant
resource
when I have a few thing open.

"John Barnett MVP" wrote in message
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Ready boost is only really useful if your system has less than 1GB of
memory.

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"Ronnie" wrote in message
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I've installed a couple of flash drives that are supposed to support
ReadyBoost in Vista on a couple of my Vista computers, however I'm not
seeing much on an increase in speed. I've looked at the Task Manager, but
I'm not seeing any type of memory size increase either. How does this
work? Would it be better to install more ram rather than this setup?

Ronnie

Sorry you feel that way AJR. I have simply answered the posters question in
a truthful way. I have used Ready boost on a 2GB machine and have not seen
any significant increase in performance. I certainly wouldn't recommend
using Ready boost on any machine with memory in excess of 1GB and that is a
recommendation I stick with!

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"AJR" wrote in message
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If the memory slot has an LED indicator it is a good visual clue to
ReadyBoost activity.

with credentials such as "Associate Expert Windows - Shell/User:...." I
would not expect such a post - may I suggest a review of ReadyBoost as
documented in the "Vista Resource Kit".

"John Barnett MVP" wrote in message
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Ready boost is only really useful if your system has less than 1GB of
memory.

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"Ronnie" wrote in message
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I've installed a couple of flash drives that are supposed to support
ReadyBoost in Vista on a couple of my Vista computers, however I'm not
seeing much on an increase in speed. I've looked at the Task Manager,
but I'm not seeing any type of memory size increase either. How does
this work? Would it be better to install more ram rather than this
setup?

Ronnie

I certainly haven't experienced any increase in performance with 2GB of
memory. My Core2 duo machine performs exactly the same with memory intensive
applications open (or numerous applications open) regardless of whether I
use ready boost or not.

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"Spirit" wrote in message
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My Laptop has 2gig and a FAST Thumbdrive and readyboost is a significant
resource
when I have a few thing open.

"John Barnett MVP" wrote in message
...
Ready boost is only really useful if your system has less than 1GB of
memory.

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"Ronnie" wrote in message
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I've installed a couple of flash drives that are supposed to support
ReadyBoost in Vista on a couple of my Vista computers, however I'm not
seeing much on an increase in speed. I've looked at the Task Manager,
but I'm not seeing any type of memory size increase either. How does
this work? Would it be better to install more ram rather than this
setup?

Ronnie