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    Ready Boost and Vista-disable Ready Boost service???

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by pcumming, Jun 27, 2008.

  1. pcumming

    pcumming Notebook Enthusiast

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    Have a new laptop (Dell XPS 1530-nice, terrible speakers and webcam).
    I have 3gb of Ram installed and am running Vista (ugh).

    After reading I have determined that adding a ReadyBoost CD card probably would not help much at all since I have enough RAM.

    However, would disabling the Ready Boost service also benefit me in reducing resources even a tiny bit? I do occasionally put my laptop into sleep mode.

    Not sure if Ready Boost is used at all if you do not have some external memory installed. But then again-I bet it uses it for something..

    Thanks for any clarification

    Sincerely
    Peter
     
    pcumming, Jun 27, 2008
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  2. Just Lou

    Just Lou Notebook Evangelist

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    If you have no plans to us a flash storage device as a drive for disk cache, it is safe to disable it. Whether you'll benefit much is debatable, but it will be one less service running.
     
    Just Lou, Jun 27, 2008
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  3. MaXimus

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    disbable it if u know whats good for u
     
    MaXimus, Jun 27, 2008
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  4. coolguy

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    "pcumming" - LMAO.....
     
    coolguy, Jun 27, 2008
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  5. pcumming

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    Yes the name is a curse.. and first name Peter. People made fun of me b4 I even knew what it meant.
    What were my parents thinking. Now deceased and no recourse.....

    In any event disabling Ready Boost should not affect any performance if I do not have/use a CF card or USB drive set up for ready boost?

    I was going to get a 4gb CF card but was told it would make little difference with a 3gb system.

    Thanks
    Peter
     
    pcumming, Jun 27, 2008
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    swarmer beep beep

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    Disabling it will probably help performance in a way so tiny you'll never notice. But leaving it on will do nothing. So, it doesn't really matter, but... go ahead and disable it.
     
    swarmer, Jun 27, 2008
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  7. pcumming

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    Will disabling it screw up any boot time or any performance-anyone know for sure??

    Peter
     
    pcumming, Jun 28, 2008
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    No other services depend on ReadyBoost. It is safe to disable it as its an independent feature.
     
    flipfire, Jun 28, 2008
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    Actually disabling Readyboost causes slower performance. It's better to leave it enabled even if you don't use it.
     
    McGrady, Jun 30, 2008
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  10. pcumming

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    Really. Did not know that. Are you saying then it writes it own cache out for some reason either to RAM memory or hard disk?

    How about disabling Cryptographic services and Volume Shadow Copies?

    Everyone else told me it does nothing but I was skeptical.

    Thanks
    Peter
     
    pcumming, Jun 30, 2008
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  11. coolguy

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    Don't disable readyboost. My start up time increased after doing that. Superfetch depends on readyboost and vice versa (even if you don't use a flash drive).
     
    coolguy, Jun 30, 2008
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    I have Cryptographic enabled on automatic. Volume shadow copies on manual
     
    McGrady, Jun 30, 2008
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  14. niGht kiD

    niGht kiD .. beach boy ♫

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    I had disabled it before and my control panel was working.
    Ditto.
     
    niGht kiD, Jul 1, 2008
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