Jul 14, 2009
ReadyBoost and sysmain I am trying to activate readyboost in windows 7 professional 64 bit. When I go to properties on the usb drive, it says ReadyBoost is. How do I install/get back Windows ReadyBoost?
I have been running build 7260 for awhile on my Asus notebook (see system spec) and so far have not had too many issues with it. Since I have done several succesive upgrades: Vista Business > Windows 7 build 7227 > Windows 7 build 7260 I have noticed some bugs creeping in (apps and games are crashing periodically or not loading correctly, gaming performance could be better). I attribute this to the string of successive upgrades.
I am going to wipe the drive and do a clean install of either the 32 or 64 bit RTM build in the next few days as it becomes available. One of the main goals is to increase performance with both applications and games. I use this laptop for work doing web development and heavy photoshop and graphics intensive work. I typically have many applications open at once using quite allot of system resources.
For this project I am going to:
A: Add another 2gb of ram to bring the total from 3gb to 4gb, or
B: Add a fast 16gb sd card to the system for the ReadyBoost feature, probably using around 6 to 9gb for this feature
For me to add the extra gig of ram it becomes more necessary to install the 64 bit build. If I use the 16gb sd card for ReadBoost, I can probably stick with 32 bit. None of my apps are currently 64 bit anyhow so I am not sure 64bit is the way to go right now.
I would like to hear people's thoughts on this and what others experiences have been especially using ReadyBoost on systems with over 2gb of memory..
Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit Free Download
- In 64-bit Windows, up to 32 GB of the cache can be created on a single NTFS-formatted removable drive, even if the drive itself is larger. Windows 7, 8/8.1, and 10 also support the exFAT file system (cache up to 32 GB in size, too) for ReadyBoost. On FAT16 and FAT32 drives, file size limits of 2 and 4 gigabytes still apply.
- Between 250MB and 32GB in size and up to eight devices for a total of 256GB (Windows 7 64-bit Enabling & Configuring ReadyBoost Insert a USB flash device into a USB 2.0 or higher port. The AutoPlay dialog box should be displayed automatically (unless you’ve changed the defaults in Control Panel).
- ReadyBoost will display a warning message if you attempt to use one of these cards. Now, on a personal note, I tried ready boost for myself on my laptop which runs Windows 7 (64-bit) with six gigs of RAM and an i5 processor.
- At first, Open Windows Manager collects all the open windows into a popup menu, and it also puts a small float and transparent window(32.32 pixels) on the top of the screen. When you let the mouse move over the float window, the popup menu which contains all the open windows will pop up to you immediately.