Speedboost on XP / Vista

Ratboy

My 1Gb usb stick won't work with my XP or Vista compy, not fast enough.

But a 4Gb one works with XP, but not Vista, but using either in my partners XP compy, there is no option to use Speedboost..?

WHY? According to Wikipedia, XP doesn't support Speedboost, when it does on mine, but not my partners identical build of xp?

So the stick is quick enough for one xp, not for Vista, and no option on another xp?

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if you're talking about readyboost, it's a waste of time

marleyboy

Is it possible your system hardware is non supportive. I know Readyboost is not supported on a USB1 port and requires a USB2 to work, but not sure about Speedboost.

Ratboy

The speedboost/Readyboost (whatever), was working, and speeded up the compy, F: Removable drive, properties tab says speedboost, how much memory to allocate. However, I took it out to try in the laptop, says not up to spec, and in my partners compy, (as suggested possibly due to USB1 spec), it doesn't appear. However, I plugged it back into my XP machine, and the tab to select has disappeared. But both XP machines have the same version of xp3? dunno? oh well!

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see post 2

Ratboy

closed wrote: »

see post 2

If adding a 4mb memory stick speeds my computer up, I am there! It works! With speedboost, I've used it, then the option disappeared?

Using a cheap usb card as a memory stick, 1GB installed, 4-8GB memory stick, why not use that as it is cheaper to buy? Closed? Why is it a waste of time? Cheaper and easier to install?

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but it doesn't and wont speed it up.

fewer lines of optimised code = efficient machine
more lines of code and lots of marketing/hype = slower machine.

Ratboy

closed wrote: »

but it doesn't and wont speed it up.

fewer lines of optimised code = efficient machine
more lines of code and lots of marketing/hype = slower machine.

Sorry I don't understand your point, it's using memory, rather than hdisk to transfer things. Memory is faster.

I'm not using 3rd party software, it's built into Windows, so basically what you say is Windows XP Pro, as we all know is full of bugs etc! :beer:

RobTang

Ratboy wrote: »

Sorry I don't understand your point, it's using memory, rather than hdisk to transfer things. Memory is faster.

I'm not using 3rd party software, it's built into Windows, so basically what you say is Windows XP Pro, as we all know is full of bugs etc! :beer:

When windows xp was first release a decade ago, it kind of made sense to bolster some machines that had very little ram (512-1gb), there were some small set of situations where ReadyBoost would actually give you some a tiny bit of a performance increase.

A couple of years of hardware updates and many tests showed there was really no situations anymore where ReadyBoost actually provided performance gain.

The USB 2 interface isn't really that quick either, writing to the drives with the internal controller will be faster than writing to a pen drive.

Mobeer

Remember the requirements for Windows XP:
"At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)"

As I recall, using Readyboost did help when a PC only had 64/128 MB of RAM. Adding more memory made a much larger boost in performance.

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a - it's xp, not vista onwards

b - it's not ram, not the same as ram, acts nothing like ram

c - waste of time