Found something kinda cool about XP!

I dont know how many people know about this but there is a way to make XP faster.

Like Vista has redi boost XP has the same thing.

Go to Control panel and then to System.

Click on the Advanced tab.

In the preformance section click on settings.

Choose advanced tab again.

Then click on the memory settings button.

Then choose how much you want to allocate.


remember not to choose to much because you computer has to find the data in the flash so if there is to much then it takes longer to find the data. But there is a recomended number on the screen.


source:
http://cnettv.cnet.com/2001-1_53-50004761.html

 

Nice- There goes the only advantage I see vista having. Seems like this might be a good method to bypass the 3.5g limit on memory too.

 

The is vitural so there is not a 3.5GB limit. It is cache not RAM

 

This NOT the same thing as vista's readyboost! All this does is simply move the operating system pagefile to a flash drive... CNET should know better than post nonsense like this, this is no different than if I moved the pagefile to another physical hardrive or to another partition on my computer.

Also this cannot bypass the limit of ~3.5Gb on ram for for 32bit versions of windows.

 

But I know it gets by the limit of the mother board.

 

will windows actually let you set up the page file on there? afaik, it won't let you put it on a removable disk, or perhaps it won't let you if it is the only page file.

 

Yeah this doesn't give you any advantage anyway. Readyboost is stupid and this is stupid as well. Memory is dirt cheap, so use MEMORY (Throughput of anywhere between 2.7GB/s to 21.3GB/s) vs flash drives (throughput of 10-100 TOPS, and 100 is too high MB/s)

 

what is vista ready boost?

 

It allows you to use external flash drives (USB sticks if you will) to add to a system's ram.

 

You will get much faster responses if you google very common and simple questions.


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vista+readyboost&aq=0&oq=vista+ready



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welcome to like ... 8 years ago .. lol

here is the fastest setting: click "No Paging File" I'm running it like this since like forever, lol. All you need is 2GB ram, thought 1GB may be enough depending what you do with the computer.

 

And supposedly it's supposed to make your system faster. But since most USB flash drives are limited to about 15 MB per second, and most hard drives get at least 30 MB/s these days, if you're going to be using virtual memory a lot, you're probably better off actually using virtual memory instead of ReadyBoost. It does give quicker access times, so in some circumstances it may be slightly quicker, but generally, it's not going to do much.

Now if you had a 1997 laptop with a 10 MB/s hard drive it might do something noticeable, but then you couldn't run Vista anyway and probably wouldn't have a USB drive. So it's a nice idea, but can't be applied where it actually might help.

Come USB 3.0, though, it might be useful. USB 3.0 is supposed to be 10 times as fast as USB 2.0; whether it will be in practice isn't yet known.