Comments on: Windows Vista ReadyBoost Problem

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:20:59 +0000

@Ronnie – The Cruzers are fast enough, so that should definitely work. And the ReadyBoost tab should always be there, even if the device is not fast enough.
Check if the ReadyBoost service is running (services.msc). If not try starting it. I have seen cases where it did not start as a result of registry corruption. If it does not start in your case, start an admin command prompt and try “SFC /SCANNOW” first.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:18:15 +0000

Using a Cruzer Flash Drive. Did your steps above but when I right click on the Flash Drive and properties I do NOT get a Ready Boost tab!
Frustrating.
Yes I am 2.0 USB ports, vista and autorun is on.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:37:16 +0000

@Robert Miles – To my knowledge ReadyBoost can only be used to create a disk cache from your USB stick. So effectively you are already using more (flash) memory to speed up the system, but it will not change the Vista memory limits or the mobo RAM limits.
Besides, as you correctly state, that is a motherboard limit. With the right 64-bit Vista version you can already address 128 GB of RAM if your mobo allows.

By: Robert Miles

Robert Miles — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:32:09 +0000

Can ReadyBoost make Vista effectively use more RAM than that version of Vista was designed to allow? All three of my machines already have as much installed memory as their motherboards allow, which is also as much as their Windows Vista Home Premium versions allow (4 GB on the 32-bit machine; 8 GB on the two 64-bit machines).

By: Reiska

Reiska — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:18:47 +0000

Okay, I apparently also had something else clogging up my system as well. I just ran a disk Error-Check on both my drives and now the system seems to run fine. Only I was initially surprised as I couldn’t see the ReadyBoost used anywhere, in the Task Manager as Physical Space or anywhere in the Resource Monitor. (as opposed to: now it shows up in Resource monitor, in the Disk section as the ReadyBoost.sfcahce file is actively being used.) Previously about all of the processes shown in the Resource monitor showed response times between 1000 – 8000 ms, but now they’re back to more normal values (only the readyboost.sfcache shows sbout 160 ms, all other processes below 20 ms.) Thanks anyway :)

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:09:30 +0000

@Reiska – If you cannot notice any difference in your system’s performance in any scenario, then you can obviously do with it. Keep in mind that fast, modern computers will not benefit from ReadyBoost that much. It is merely on older systems, where minimum requirements for Vista are just met, that you will see the biggest impact of ReadyBoost.

By: Reiska

Reiska — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:31:29 +0000

What if Windows recognizes the USB drive normally, lets me choose ReadyBoost for it and set the amount of memory used for this, and even takes up the set amount of memory from the drive but has no effect whatsoever on the system otherwise?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:59:30 +0000

@antonio – I have added a screen shot of the registry edit, hope that helps.

By: antonio

antonio — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:06:47 +0000

where is “ReadSpeedKBs”
i cant find that

By: Mohamd

Mohamd — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:08:59 +0000

unbelievable?!!!!!!!
frist i was careless about this soulation but when i tried it, amazing really like charm
now it worked, much thanks