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***Ready Boost Gotcha***
This is an informational post. If you don't use Ready Boost, in a dual boot
situation, there is no reason to read further. Parameters: 2 gig of PC3200 Crucial RAM 2 gig Ready Boost enhanced SanDisk Micro (no U3 capabilities) I was noticing yesterday (Sunday) that Ready Boost did not seem to be doing anything, as opposed to actually seeing a decrease in application load time over the past couple of weeks. I have a Ready Boots USB stick plugged permanently into an interior port in my computer. I dual boot between Vista and Windows XP. I use, and boot into Vista almost exclusively - going into XP to use my flat bed scanner (no Vista drivers and none to be available). I have the USB stick configured to be Drive S: when booted into either operating system. I just don't touch it al all when booted into Windows XP. Unfortunately, something DOES touch it. I noticed yesterday that the USB stick showed empty when booted into Windows XP. Something is clearing/deleting the ReadyBoost.sfcache file from the stick whenever I boot into Windows XP. This, of course, means that the next time I boot into Vista the cache has to be re-established and repopulated - causing an initial performance hit on the system. When once the cache has been established/populated, I can shutdown and reboot into Vista and the cache is doing what it is intended to do. So, if Ready Boost does not seem to be doing anything for you, and you dual boot, this may be the answer you are seeking! -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) Quote from George Ankner: If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! |
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***Ready Boost Gotcha***
Well, that's cool. Glad you found that out.
Thanks for the info! -- Dustin Harper http://www.vistarip.com Richard Urban wrote: This is an informational post. If you don't use Ready Boost, in a dual boot situation, there is no reason to read further. Parameters: 2 gig of PC3200 Crucial RAM 2 gig Ready Boost enhanced SanDisk Micro (no U3 capabilities) I was noticing yesterday (Sunday) that Ready Boost did not seem to be doing anything, as opposed to actually seeing a decrease in application load time over the past couple of weeks. I have a Ready Boots USB stick plugged permanently into an interior port in my computer. I dual boot between Vista and Windows XP. I use, and boot into Vista almost exclusively - going into XP to use my flat bed scanner (no Vista drivers and none to be available). I have the USB stick configured to be Drive S: when booted into either operating system. I just don't touch it al all when booted into Windows XP. Unfortunately, something DOES touch it. I noticed yesterday that the USB stick showed empty when booted into Windows XP. Something is clearing/deleting the ReadyBoost.sfcache file from the stick whenever I boot into Windows XP. This, of course, means that the next time I boot into Vista the cache has to be re-established and repopulated - causing an initial performance hit on the system. When once the cache has been established/populated, I can shutdown and reboot into Vista and the cache is doing what it is intended to do. So, if Ready Boost does not seem to be doing anything for you, and you dual boot, this may be the answer you are seeking! |