3 ms·
What is ReadyBoost? I'm having a hard time finding information about it where the writer seems to know what he's talking about, but it just looks like an extens
by cynicalkane 16y ago
What is ReadyBoost? I'm having a hard time finding information about it where the writer seems to know what he's talking about, but it just looks like an extension of Windows's application pre-loading feature. That's nice, but not really the same as a real read/write cache.
- torial 16y agoEssentially the pagefile.sys (which at a high level is a massive memory mapped file that Windows uses for virtual memory) gets stored on a flash drive. It very much helps the overall responsiveness of a computer that doesn't have enough RAM to do without a pagefile.sys -- especially if they have a slow hard drive (I inadvertently installed Vista on a slow computer and this helped quite a bit). ReadyBoost is different from PreFetch (they are features you can turn off/on independent of each other) which I believe you are referring to when you mention "pre-loading". The wikipedia article is decent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost