NEVER EVER Disable Readyboost !

Several weeks ago, I spent an entire evening removing unwanted applications from my G1S, Defragging, deleting restore points, and disabling unneccesary services.

Since then, my startup time has seemed to be getting longer and longer. I had tried system restore, and several other things, but nothing worked. This evening, I decided that if I can't sort it, it's time for a fresh install. That was until I stumbled across a thread that mentioned you should never disable READYBOOST, even if you have no intention of ever using a flash drive for readyboost, as it will cause other issues.

How right it was. After re-enabling the READYBOOST service as Automatic, my stable boot times (Pressing Power until stable) have gone from a consistant over 2 minutes to around a consistant 50 seconds, including password entry.

I disabled readyboost after reading about it on several Guides on how to increase system performance. There was no mention of this on any guide ! - They all stated that if you don't use a flash drive for readyboost, the best thing is to disable it as it's unneccesary.

 

I found some oddities when I tried disabling READYBOOST as well. See them described Here.

 

Thanks for the info
We all like to tweak
But we want to make things better

 

Yes, disabling readyboost service made my boot longer.

 

wowwwwwww what a great advice man!

rep point +1

 

That's good advice for everyone. In general, its not a good idea to disable services, despite what many tweak guides will tell you. Most of the time, the majority of services sit idle on your computer and won't do anything, so the only real benefit from disabling them is regaining RAM. Even then, you stand to gain less than 2mb per disabled service (on my system, about 40 processes take up less than 40 mb of space.)

 

And even then, often times that 2mb footprint is VIRTUAL memory not real RAM.

Gary

 

Memory is in abundance these days, with many systems now coming with 3GB standard (even though lots are still being delivered with a measily 1 GB). Disabling services is becoming less and less of a worry, unless you get conflicts with applications that require them. Upgrading memory is dirt cheap these days anyway.

 

I don't know, there are still several services that i will always disable by default, windows error reporting being one of them.

 

i always disable that POS service along with system restore and Windows Defender

 

FYI:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4242301#post4242301

 

I've disabled this service, and I haven't had any z0mfg moments like the OP and others in this thread have had.

 

I originally disabled the service - for quite some time, my boot time was about 2 minutes - I think it droped to 1min / 1 minute 30 seconds since - point is though.
The effectiveness of this tweak may be debateable - but wasn't it discussed thoroughly enough already?

You can leave it on or off - whichever suits you.

 

What those sites never tell you is that by disabling the readyboost service you also disable the readyboot service and what readyboot does is use an in ram cache to help speed up your bootup but it does depend on how much memory you have, the more you have the bigger the ram cache can be. you can find more info on readyboot here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoot#System_performance

 

I take tweak guides with a grain of salt usually. Messing around with services can be beneficial but also can cripple your system if not done properly. Generally as long as you don't have a ton of junkware applications your system should run very smooth.