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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
Hello.
I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? Thank you in advance. -- "The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege." --Chapter 3 in Sun Tzu's The Ancient Art of War (Translated by Lionel Giles) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
Ant wrote:
Hello. I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? Thank you in advance. If you are referring to Vista's Readyboost, no. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
On 8/16/2009 11:04 AM PT, Hank J. typed:
I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? If you are referring to Vista's Readyboost, no. Yeah, that and thanks. Aww, someone should make one for XP. -- "Busy as ants hurrying orcs were digging, digging lines of deep trenches in a huge ring, just out of bowshot from the walls;" --The Return of the King (book) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
No, "Ready Boost" is not part of Windows XP.
However if you want to see a significant performance boost you can and a second hard drive. Partition the new (2nd) drive so that the first partition (Logical drive) is no more than 10% to 20% of the total drive size. Now use the first partition to relocated your pagefile and also as a location for temporary files. -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "Ant" wrote in message ... Hello. I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? Thank you in advance. -- "The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege." --Chapter 3 in Sun Tzu's The Ancient Art of War (Translated by Lionel Giles) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
Ant wrote:
On 8/16/2009 11:04 AM PT, Hank J. typed: I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? If you are referring to Vista's Readyboost, no. Yeah, that and thanks. Aww, someone should make one for XP. How much RAM does your system have? |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
On 8/16/2009 11:42 AM PT, Bennett Marco typed:
I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? If you are referring to Vista's Readyboost, no. Yeah, that and thanks. Aww, someone should make one for XP. How much RAM does your system have? 2 GB of RAM. Having some minor speed improvements with those USB Flash drives would be nice. -- "The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind. The ant, sir, is blowin' in the wind." --the misheard lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
On 8/16/2009 11:24 AM PT, JS typed:
No, "Ready Boost" is not part of Windows XP. Darn. I was hoping someone made a software addon to be something like this for XP. However if you want to see a significant performance boost you can and a second hard drive. Partition the new (2nd) drive so that the first partition (Logical drive) is no more than 10% to 20% of the total drive size. Now use the first partition to relocated your pagefile and also as a location for temporary files. I have something like that already. Just curious if USB Flash drives/sticks could be used for a little more speed up since I have unused ones. -- "It's kind of an insane case ... 6,000 ants dressed up as rice and robbed a Chinese restaurant." --Steven Wright /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
Ant wrote:
On 8/16/2009 11:42 AM PT, Bennett Marco typed: I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? If you are referring to Vista's Readyboost, no. Yeah, that and thanks. Aww, someone should make one for XP. How much RAM does your system have? 2 GB of RAM. Having some minor speed improvements with those USB Flash drives would be nice. With that much RAM, even Vista wouldn't benefit from Readyboost. You either need faster hard drives, or an upgrade of your mobo and CPU. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
On 8/16/2009 1:00 PM PT, Bennett Marco typed:
I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? If you are referring to Vista's Readyboost, no. Yeah, that and thanks. Aww, someone should make one for XP. How much RAM does your system have? 2 GB of RAM. Having some minor speed improvements with those USB Flash drives would be nice. With that much RAM, even Vista wouldn't benefit from Readyboost. You either need faster hard drives, or an upgrade of your mobo and CPU. Oh OK. My quad-core PC is fast enough. Just looking for more speed ups (always room for them!). I was hoping using USB Flash sticks/drives would even make it faster. I guess not then! Thanks. -- "This isn't a war. It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants." --artilleryman from H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is/was listening to a song on his home computer: Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer (Freemasons & DJ's P.A.D Re-Edit Extended Remix 2009) [5.14] |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
On Aug 16, 2:50*pm, Ant wrote:
On 8/16/2009 11:42 AM PT, Bennett Marco typed: I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? If you are referring to Vista's Readyboost, no. Yeah, that and thanks. Aww, someone should make one for XP. How much RAM does your system have? 2 GB of RAM. Having some minor speed improvements with those USB Flash drives would be nice. -- "The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind. The ant, sir, is blowin' in the wind." --the misheard lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" * * /\___/\ * */ /\ /\ \ * * * * Phil/Ant @http://antfarm.ma.cx(Personal Web Site) * | |o * o| | * * * *Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL):http://aqfl.net * * *\ _ / * * * * Nuke ANT from e-mail address: * * * ( ) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. I found some 3rd party "solutions" to give at least a ReadyBoost appearance to XP and a flash drive. Free to download and try. Some people seem to be perturbed with even the real ReadyBoost - perhaps their expectations are too high. "ReadyBoost is a great technology when you’re low on RAM." I think for XP, I would just add more RAM. I wonder which would be faster and more reliable - a flash drive or on board RAM? Anybody multi OS people have experience with this in the real world? |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
Jose wrote:
I wonder which would be faster and more reliable - a flash drive or on board RAM? More RAM... but in this case, the OP has enough. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
there is a third party
maker that makes a ready boost version for xp. it's about 50 bucks. ------------- they really act like the hibernation feature and you require usb flash drives that are twice the size of your ram to provide the full benefit. also, flash drives come in two flavors: those that are ready boost ready and those that are not. ------------- one day microsoft will hire the smart guy who develops a rom level hibernation. but it will be a long time til then. -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - Microsoft Partner - @hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~"share the nirvana" - dbZen "Ant" wrote in message ... Hello. I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? Thank you in advance. -- "The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege." --Chapter 3 in Sun Tzu's The Ancient Art of War (Translated by Lionel Giles) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
On 8/16/2009 2:34 PM PT, Bennett Marco typed:
Jose wrote: I wonder which would be faster and more reliable - a flash drive or on board RAM? More RAM... but in this case, the OP has enough. Yeah, I thought I could speed up XP's boot up like Vista's ReadyBoast with one of those USB Flash sticks/drives. -- "Even an ant can hurt an elephant." --Proverb /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
Um, nice poem?
On 8/16/2009 2:58 PM PT, db typed: there is a third party maker that makes a ready boost version for xp. it's about 50 bucks. ------------- they really act like the hibernation feature and you require usb flash drives that are twice the size of your ram to provide the full benefit. also, flash drives come in two flavors: those that are ready boost ready and those that are not. ------------- one day microsoft will hire the smart guy who develops a rom level hibernation. but it will be a long time til then. -- "Though your enemy is the size of an ant, look upon him as an elephant." --Danish /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
JS "and also as a location for temporary files". That's a variant I have not seen suggested before! -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JS wrote: No, "Ready Boost" is not part of Windows XP. However if you want to see a significant performance boost you can and a second hard drive. Partition the new (2nd) drive so that the first partition (Logical drive) is no more than 10% to 20% of the total drive size. Now use the first partition to relocated your pagefile and also as a location for temporary files. "Ant" wrote in message ... Hello. I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? Thank you in advance. -- "The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege." --Chapter 3 in Sun Tzu's The Ancient Art of War (Translated by Lionel Giles) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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