XP Hack: Readyboost with any USB Device
by Alpesh Nakar
Just as you can hack Vista registry to take advantage of Vista ReadyBoost feature, you can use this simple guide to ‘activate’ ReadyBoost like features in Windows XP as well.
Right click on My Computer, go to Properties, and then navigate to the Advanced or Performance tab.
After you have reached this point, follow the images below.
Once you have reached the screen above, select your flask drive, and add it to your virtual memory (paging size is up to you).
*It is recommend making a partition just for file swaping (if using a hard drive instead of a flask drive), so that system fragmentation won?t force the swap file to fragment as well.
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October 4th, 2007 at 5:10 am
It’s beyond my skill level, but a batch file to enable and disable the flash pagefile would be useful. Nice idea thou.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:41 am
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February 7th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Dah!
Anyone can set up a USB drive with a page file.
Questions:
Does the USB drive have to be present at boot up?
What will XP do if it’s not?
What happens if someone pulls out the USB drive accidentally?
This “hack” has issues.
A freeware/shareware utility to emulate Vistas readyBoost on XP would be better.
Folcrom.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Another one author that thinks that placing pagefile to flash in XP = ReadyBoost in Vista.
1. Pagefile behavior differs in V and XP. Your flash will be just eaten fast, probably even wo performance gain, because XP doesn’t care what will be written there, while flash has advantage for many small files due to high random rw.
2. You pull it out - you crash the system. In ReadyBoost flash stores _cache_ of some part of pagefile. You pull it out - V goes to HDD.
I could only find eBootstr for XP. 24-29-39$ looks too much for me