| Do you face something like this: 2 minutes to boot into | | | | "Device Status" to a value "2". If the "ReadSpeedKBs" |
| Vista, then another 30 seconds just to load start up | | | | and "WriteSpeedKBs" is below "1000" in hexadecimal, |
| programs? Indeed many people and website will teach | | | | change to "1000". |
| you how to remove or disable unnecessary start up | | | | Unplug your USB memory stick and re-plug again, you |
| programs, and I do that too! However, some how | | | | should be able to configure your USB for ReadyBoost! |
| there are some software I need them at start up, such | | | | This is a cheap way to do, better than nothing. |
| as Anti Virus, Anti Spyware, Advanced Image capture | | | | However, you really need a to get a faster drive. |
| software, skype, windows messenger, yahoo | | | | Before you setup ReadyBoost, format your USB drive |
| messenger and much more...How to speed up the | | | | to the maximum allocation unit -> 64 Kbytes. Then |
| boot process if so many programs to load? | | | | change the hardware policies for this drive to |
| What to do? With 1 GB or less RAMs, you have to | | | | "Optimize for performance". You can do that by right |
| use ReadyBoost! Too bad not all USB memory sticks | | | | click and select "properties" menu on the drive, click on |
| is Vista compatible, they may be too slow to activate | | | | the "Hardware" tab then select the device and click |
| ReadyBoost, no worry, I will show you how to Force | | | | "Properties" button. After properties Window launch, |
| ReadyBoost even on slow memory stick, but you | | | | select "Polices" tab. |
| better go to get a 4 GB fast memory stick whenever | | | | Restart your computer now, after boot into Windows, |
| possible! | | | | allow 5 ~ 10 minutes time for Superfetch to fully cache |
| How To Force ReadyBoost | | | | data into the memory stick. |
| Just plug in your memory stick, select the memory | | | | After this setup or you have 2 GB RAM or more, the |
| stick in your Windows explorer, right click and select | | | | next trick you need to learn is how to properly |
| "properties" menu, select "ReadyBoost" tab and check | | | | schedule your start up processes, reassign priority to |
| on the box "Stop retesting this device...". Now launch | | | | your start up programs and massively cut down your |
| registry editor and find the key | | | | boot time and launch application faster. |
| indows NT\CurrentVersion\EMDgmt, you should see | | | | (C) Copyright 2008 Kok Choon - Feel free to reprint |
| few USB devices list, select one of them which | | | | this article in its entirety as long as all links and author |
| represent the memory stick you want, change the | | | | resources box in place. |