Vista Readyboost

Hey,A friend of mine has just purchased a new 1gb SD card to use on his vista computer. When the card is inserted, the options come up (where you can choose what you want to do, view pics, print pics etc) and the last item on the list is use this device for readyboost. But when he clicks on it - nothing happens.If you look in the properties window, there is no readyboost tab, even though it was found as readyboost compatible before. Any ideas whats happening?Thanks

ReadyBoost boosts up your system automatically, it doesn't have to tell you that, it's enabled. It'll just start making you computer faster. However, it has been found that it has almost no effects on computers with more than 1 GB of RAM.xboxrulz

But I've seen screenshots that have shown that the ReadyBoost tab appears in the properties window and allows you too choose how much of the usb that you want to use for ReadyBoost.

I'm not too sure as I've actually only tried ReadyBoost once it gave no effect so I just ditched it. It wasn't important for me either.Btw, where did you find the screenshots?xboxrulz

I would say if you have a fairly decent machine, it isn't going to make a difference...for instance, with my 2GB of RAM....it doesn't do a thing for me...So depending on the computer's specs...i would say, don't worry about the Readyboost feature...

If found a heap of them when trying to workout why it wasn't working!

Have a look at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/404.png to see what I was talking about!

So what does it do, use the usb drive if your ram gets filled? I just haven't heard of this feature before since I don't have vista so it has me intrigued, although I'd agree I doubt whatever it is can be that effective.

It just store all the unimportant memory pages into the USB key so that the important data stays inside the RAM instead of filling it with both.It's just a simple theory like that, but that theory doesn't work with faster computers. At least for now...Also, I just read that NOT ALL USB KEYS WORK WITH READYBOOST! Check that yours can.xboxrulz

Its actually a SD card that is plugged into an internal card reader (apparently these work, but the external ones do not!), but I'm not too sure if its on the 'ok' list. I've been looking and haven't been able to find an exact 'model' number for the card.

Is this in Windows XP as a pagefile. In the System panel, go to the Advanced tab, then in Performance box, click Settings. Click the Advanced tab then under Virtual Memory, click Change and there it is. My memory card/USB drives appear in here.xxxx-jozh-xxxx