If you are on Windows Vista and your system’s running slow? you must be thinking your would need additional RAM, cause that is the best way to improve a PC’s performance. However, upgrading memory is obviously involved with a cost and some systems have limited memory expansion capabilities, making it impossible to add RAM.

Windows Vista has a new way to improve your performance, speed up. With help of Ready Boost. Now you can use a USB flash drive, to improve performance without having to add additional memory to your system.
The flash memory device acts as an additional memory cache, which means that your computer can access the necessary data much quicker than it can access data on the hard drive. This is how you can Speed Up Vista with Vista Ready Boost.

As you plugin you USB, you would see a pop-up with the option “Speed up my system, using Windows Ready Boost”. If this pop up doesn’t appear you can go to Start- My Computer- Right click on your flash drive- Select Properties then choose ReadyBoost.

Now select “Use this device” and tweak the settings, click apply and you’re done.

The minimum requirement for the USB is at least 256mb but It is recommended to use a 1GB flash drive just to be sure. If you have a spare USB and a spare USB2.0 slot it’s absolutely a quick tweak. More importantly it seems to work.

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