If you are looking for a cheap and easy way to speed up your Windows PC have a look at the (for most people) unknown feature called ReadyBoost. The functionality is available since Vista and is also present in Windows 7 and Windows 8. You’re Windows installation will boot a lot faster after enabling ReadyBoost and all you need is an externel USB flash drive. ReadyBoost works with most flash storage devices. In Windows 7, it can handle more flash memory and even multiple devices—up to eight, for a maximum 256 gigabytes (GB) of additional memory.
So if you have a flash storage drive lying around that you don’t use give it a try and make your PC faster. Not all USB flash drives are supported but it should work most of the times. If you want to take real benefit of the ReadyBoost functionality there are two simple rules:
- Find the fastest storage available with read speeds at least ~10 MB/s
- Use double the amount of RAM storage in size, so if you have 2GB of RAM, then you would want to use a flash drive of at least 4GB
But even if you don’t meet above specifications you can take huge benefit of ReadyBoost, the two rules mentioned are fist rules to get the most out of the ReadyBoost functionality. Plugging in your old Flash Drive always helps quite a bit.












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