Hello again, today I would like to talk to you about a new feature added onto Windows Vista called Windows Readyboost. Windows Readyboost is a program which allows you to use a flash drive to create a bigger paging file, or virtual memory as it is more widely known as.
Virtual memory is a file that is written to a harddisk on your machine instead of to RAM. Virtual memory was made so computer with very little RAM can still run IE and other programs at a reasonable speed.
Despite the ads and hype about this new feature, it is really not that great. Any harddrive with sufficent space can run a pretty good sized paging file, for all those programs that dont need extremely fast data, like Internet Explorer, or Microsoft Word. One of the biggest points of this feature is that it is supposed to be a replacement for actually adding physical RAM. Nothing can compare to physical RAM. Games especially need physical RAM, because everything in a game reads and write things very fast.
This paging file however, can be useful in day to day tasks such as reading email. However, once you go over a certain limit (limit differs per computer) it doesnt matter anymore.
What I am trying to say is that you really dont need readyboost unless you have limited harddrive space. If you are on a laptop or even a computer with very little RAM this can be a handy feature.
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