The Windows 7 operating system is home to a number of interesting key features that provide the user with an extremely friendly platform to work upon. We here, at TechTipsApp.Com look upon such a mind-grasping feature of Windows 7.
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This operating system provides the user with an option to extend his system’s procesing memory so as to speed up his system by just using any USB or Flash drive to do so. The system speed increases drastically and your system processes runs more smoothly than ever before.
How does an USB Drive Speed Up Your System?
The free space available on your USB drive, can be added as an additional virtual cache memory to your system. This increase in the cache memory of the system increses the speed of your system proceedings as a whole. It appears as if the system’s RAM has increased to a level beyond its possible capacity. However, a view of your system properties clearly depicts your RAM capacity to retain its original capacity. The speed of the system nevertheless increases to an unforseen level.
Procedure to use a USB Drive to Speed Up Your System :
Well, to accomplish this task, follow the steps clearly stated below :
1. Plug in your USB drive to your system running Windows 7. The USB drive status can be visualized by opening “Computer” (to take a look as to how much space is free on the device).
2. The autoplay feature provides you with the options to perform the action of your choice with the USB drive. Choose to “Speed up my system using Windows Readyboost”.
If your system does not have the autoplay feature activated, open “Computer” and under the section “Devices with Removable Storage” right-click on your USB drive and select to view its properties.
In the “Properties” box that appears, select the tab “Readyboost”.
3. The contents of the “Readyboost” tab gives you the option to speed up your system by utilizing the available on the USB device. This available space varies according to free space on your USB drive. You can also regulate the amount of space to be added to the cache memory. As long as the device is used for increasing the system speed, this reserved space will not be available for file storage.
Check on the option to “Use this device”, choose the amount of space to be used in increasing your system’s speed and then click to “Apply”.
4. On applying the settings, Readyboost configures your cache memory, adding the memory space you have allocated from your USB drive.
When configuring your cache memory is complete click on the “OK” button to complete your task.
Your USB drive has been successfully configured so as to speed up your system. A visual difference can be noticed immediately if you take a look at the present status of your USB drive. The exact space you had allocated to be added to the cache memory is depicted to be used up and the rest of the space is now available for file storage.
The system proceedings are carried out a lot faster than usual, enabling you to experience a hindrance free, fast and extremely user friendly platform to work upon.
I had no idea this was a feature. I am going to have to test this out. Thanks!
I had no idea either that this could be done. I’ve never actually gone through everything to see what every feature is all about simply, I suppose, because much of it I simply wouldn’t understand because I’m not trained or by nature (or ability!) technically gifted. Thanks for the insight.
Good quick way to boost system performance without going under the hood, this is exactly what most users would like about it.
This is a good article but is weird 😕 how can a usb speed up your system
I knew about this. Resorting to a USB 2.0 drive to act as cache can be VERY slow! I don’t recommend this…it can even slow your system down on some setups. This is supposed to be an option for systems with little RAM. But on systems with lots of RAM…it can hurt performance.
@Forum RPG: Yes. This method is for those who have small RAM. There is no need of using this process at where the RAM is sufficient. Thanks for sharing. But don’t try to comment as a spammer.
This works well enough on older systems. I have an AMD Athlon running Windows 7 Ultimate. Works surprisingly well!
Glad to know that it works in older system. Thanks for the information.
Hello and thanks for this infirmational article.
Well, this is a great feature but i just had a question.
If i were to use this with any usb drive that has the ready boost option, would i be able to use it normaly after it has been unplugged. I mean that, if i plug an 8GB USB and lets say 2GB were to be use for this purpose, so while plugged only 6GB were available. Now, does it mean that my USB has now become 6GB everywhere i go, and will only use the 2GB when on my PC. Or am I completely mistaken, and once its unplugged it will use the full 8GB(minus the processing space of course, the one they mention in the product package)