{"id":126,"date":"2008-07-30T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T07:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2008-07-13T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T17:12:21","slug":"making-vista-faster-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Making Vista Faster, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second thing you can do to improve the performance of Windows Vista is to take advantage of <em>ReadyBoost<\/em>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nReadyBoost is a new technology with Vista. What it does is to use storage from a USB thumb drive or other storage devices as a cache for your PC. It works because the access time for flash memory is far faster than disk storage. Therefore, the computer&#8217;s operations see a significant improvement when you use ReadyBoost.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s all technical nonsense. I recognize you&#8217;re merely after speed. That&#8217;s cool.<\/p>\n<p>To use ReadyBoost you need a USB thumb drive. The documentation claims that all you need is a USB storage device. Technically, that&#8217;s true. But I&#8217;ve tried using ReadyBoost with a media card or external hard drive, and every time Windows comes back and says that the gizmo is too slow. Therefore you must needs a USB thumb drive.<\/p>\n<p>Use a thumb drive that has at least as much storage as your computer&#8217;s memory. My machine has 3GB of RAM, so I bought a 4GB thumb drive. (It was about $50 at Office Max.) The minimum size drive you can use is 256MB.<\/p>\n<p>Plug the thumb drive into your PC. From the AutoPlay dialog box that appears, choose the option titled Speed Up My System. Doing so takes you to the thumb drive&#8217;s Properties dialog box, ReadyBoost tab. Choose the option Use This Device, and instantly you should see a performance improvement.<\/p>\n<p>As with other USB storage gizmos, don&#8217;t just yank the thumb drive from the PC when you want to; you must &#8220;safely remove&#8221; the thing. Directions are found in my books.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the speed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second thing you can do to improve the performance of Windows Vista is to take advantage of ReadyBoost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}