How to Enable and Use ReadyBoost in Windows 7 and Vista

Windows ReadyBoost allows user to make use of relatively cheap USB flash drive, memory stick or memory card as extra additional disk-based cache memory to speed up and boost performance of Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system, and improve system responsiveness. Windows uses ReadyBoost memory to supplement the existing virtual memory, which is stored on slow hard disk drive.

In order to be able to be used as the virtual memory caching storage medium by ReadyBoost, the removable media will need to meet the following hardware and speed requirements:

1. The capacity of the removable media is at least 256 MB (or 250 MB after formatting).
2. The flash memory devices must be capable of 2.5MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads spread uniformly across the entire device.

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