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Windows Vista Tip Use a USB Flash Drive -
To Improve PC Performance
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Windows Vista Tip Use a USB Flash Drive to Improve PC Performance Tech Support: Do you have a USB flash (thumb) drive that has some spare space? Would you like to speed up your PC? (We all do!) Then your in luck, a new feature of Windows Vista called Windows ReadyBoost allows you to use that spare thumb drive space to do that - speed up your Vista computer.
Windows Vista Tip Use a USB Flash Drive to Improve PC Performance
By Raymond Garcia
WebTechGeek.com
Here's Windows Vista Tip - Use a USB Flash Drive to Improve PC Performance:
1. Insert your USB thumb drive into one of your Vista computer's USB ports. The AutoPlay dialog box opens a few seconds after plugging the drive in.
2. Click the Speed Up My System button on the AutoPlay window, as shown below Figure 1.
Figure 1. Opening the Windows ReadyBoost feature.
NOTE: If the AutoPlay window doesn't open up, you can access the same location by opening Computer or Windows Explorer, right-clicking on the device drive, selecting Properties, and clicking on the ReadyBoost tab. Then, you can proceed to the next step.
3. Select the Use This Device option, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Enabling Windows ReadyBoost on the device.
- Select Use This Device.
- Use the slider to tell Vista how much of the drive you want to use, or.
- type in a specific number of MB you want to use here.
4. By using the slider bar or typing into the field, choose how much space you want to dedicate to Windows ReadyBoost.
5. Click OK to apply the changes and exit.
The space you specified will now be reserved for Windows ReadyBoost, which is represented by a cache file called ReadyBoost, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Example of the ReadyBoost cache file.
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