How to completely disable 'readyboot'? (Not readyboost)

I've disabled both Readyboost and Superfetch, but I'm still seeing the Windows Prefetch files being accessed, specifically readyboot.etl.

Is there any way to get rid of Readyboot? I'm using 64-bit Vista Home Premium.

See here if you haven't even heard of Readyboot:
http://vistahelp.blogspot.com/2007/04/readyboost-better-windows-vista.html

 

A quick google search had me find this page:
http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/06/21/a-ton-of-options-for-tweaking-vista/
This should do everything you want and more.

 

That page doesn't appear to mention anything about readyboot. Have you tried that tool and used it to disable readyboot?

I'm not looking for more general purpose vista tweak websites but rather a fix for this specific problem.

 

You're right, it doesn't talk about readyboot but it's very likely the same thing as prefetching. I haven't tried the tool yet but I'll do it for you and post what happens.

EDIT: just ran the installer and it lets you customize what you want to disable/enable so you could just disable the prefetching.

 

Terrific! I'll try it when I get home - thanks very much!

 

I have turned off the READYBOOST service; however, under C:\Windows\Prefetch\ReadyBoot\ there is still a READYBOOT.ETL file that is 17.920KB, gets recreated if deleted, and when copied over to a .txt file and viewed appears to be a list of the names of virtually every file on the PC.

Any thoughts on how to kill READYBOOT, preferrably without also slaying PreFetch and SuperFetch?

 

short from moving away from Vista (or taking chance with blasting registry to kil the eCache), i do not see how one can take out readyboot service. It is part of vista kernel!

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc162480.aspx

cheers ...

 

Whats the benefit of disabling Superfetch?

 

There is no benefit to turning off SuperFetch. Nor to turning off Fetch, for that matter. But if you want to see for yourself, Here Is How.

 

I turned the ReadyBoost service back on. There is an application program, ReadyBoo*, running as shown by TaskManager, as before post-boot. I'll have to wait awhile before I'll know of that huge ReadyBoot.etl file is recreated or not.

Update: It appears to not create the .etl file, so the ReadyBoost service stays enabled.

 

Sorry, but I do not understand why someone would want to do it if it doesn't offer any benefit. If the only criticism is that Vista caches up the RAM, isn't that the point? I didn't buy lots of RAM to sit there and look pretty.

 

ReadyBoost, ReadyBoot, PreFetch, and SuperFetch are all different, but loosely related, facilities in Vista.

 

Here's how to disable ReadyBoot (not readyboost) in Windows Vista. Launch the "Reliability and Performance Monitor" program (via Vista's Administrative Tools or via any of the other routes to launch this program). Then on the lefthand side of your screen click "Data Collector Sets", and underneath that heading click "Startup Event Trace Sessions". Now on your righthand side you'll see a list that includes ReadyBoot, and you'll see the word 'enabled' beside the word 'Readyboot'. Double clicking the list item brings up the ReadyBoot Properties dialog. This dialog has a number of tabs. Pick the "Trace Session" tab. Finally, uncheck the "Enabled" checkbox on that tab.

According to Microsoft, ReadyBoot decreases boot time by up to 20%. The price paid is it causes annoying grinding on the hard disk at times when the OS thinks the computer is idle. I regard the peace and quiet as better than the 20% reduction in boot time. And actually I didn't notice any reduction in boot time after I disabled ReadyBoot on my machine. (I have also disabled ReadyBoost and Superfetch for the same reason.)

 

Update fellas. I got tired of seeing my hard drive thrashing in Vista. So I went to my services and disabled both Readyboost and Superfetch. Guess what the hard drive no longer thrashes either.

And I don't notice any negative system performance as a result. I'm becoming of the belief that Vista is either a P OS or it's a Turkey that needs to be shot.

Windows 7 FTW

 

Most people won't notice a HUGE difference with ready boost and superfetch off. Boot times are gonna be up to a minute of waiting anyways. A few seconds shaved off isn't going to be noticed by the average user.

What makes you think superfetch and readyboot ISN'T going to be in Windows 7. For all we know, it WILL be in WIndows 7, since both are part of the kernel.

 

If it's there i'll just turn it off just like in Vista.

 

So much for that theory as my boot time (press power button on to desktop) decreased from 58 seconds to 40 seconds with Readyboost and Superfetch off.

 

As far as I know, SP3 added the Vista kernel to XP.
So it`s a conspiracy lol.
I wouldn`t turn off superfetch, if you read on it, it`s actually a very useful feature.

 

I've read enough about it to know it does very little to nothing in terms of real world improvements. It's an annoyance much like UAC.

Without Superfetch and Readyboost my system boots faster, with NO hard drive thrashing. Programs open as fast and the system is just as responsive with or without it turned on.

 

I`ve played the "kill the app that thrashes the hdd" game. I have my paging file disabled for the same reason.
But ,just as UAC , there is a reason for that service.
So what is the system boots 20 seconds later? in the end some of those services might make things better and faster.
Right now I`m thinking placebo effect.

 

I reboot once a month, so this is a good tweak.
Thanks.

 

I would like to see an article that backs this up. Talk to any software engineer that has intimate knowledge of an OS kernel and he'll tell ya this is NOT true.

For one, introducing such RADICAL changes to the kernel for a service pack only introduces new incompatabilities. Two, if you say rewrite the memory management module (like what they did in Vista), you would have to rewrite a bulk of the device drivers out there.

If anything, they just stomped out a few bugs in the kernel.

To each his own. My laptop boots faster with superfetch and Readyboot. In theory it should.

 

We'll agree to disagree but my system boots faster and is just as responsive without Superfetch turned on.

So am I. I think the placebo effect is actually thinking it really does anything worthwhile other than to burn up your hard drive and kill your battery. As I previously stated my system boots faster and is just as responsive without this useless annoying feature.

 

Awhile back I tried all these, too

 

"I tried setting both of these to zero and ran that way for awhile, but reset them both to three as I did not notice any improvement nor degradation at either setting."

So your guide basically proves my point, LOL.

There's also an easier way to turn of Superfetch and Readyboost. Just disable the services under services and applications.

 

Or disproves it, depending on perspective

 

I found an interesting article on ReadyBoot, scroll down to "ReadyBoot".

 

Sounds alot like bootvis to me.

 

I'm not sure if you guys are joking or serious. Readyboost requires either a USB stick or some other kind of external ram card such as an SD card. It effectively moves your cache onto a faster medium to stop HD thrashing and increase response times.

It sounds like you guys are enabling the feature without any actual hardware to back it up. Am I missing something here. Also disabling them does not in any way speed up boot times as exactly the same drivers and system files are loaded regardless of if the service is enabled. I just tried this on two properly configured systems and it made zero difference to boot times. ReadyBoot does actually reduce the boot time by a few (totally un-noticable unless you have a stopwatch) seconds in most cases. The average after 10 boots was only around 4 - 5 seconds reduction.

How do these conversations get started? It's like the blind leading the blind!