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Use Any USB Drive with Vista ReadyBoost

Thu, Apr 26, 2007    (No Ratings, Click to rate this article!) Loading ... Loading ...

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Windows Vista Magazine has a great tip on how to use any USB Drive with the Vista ReadyBoost technology. Check out the article to see how, but the gist of it is two steps:

  1. Disable the re-testing of any USB drive you have plugged in
  2. Go edit the registry and set the drive’s values high enough to be accepted as a ReadyBoost device

And then you are all set.

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This post was written by:

Riyad Kalla - who has written 1613 posts on The “Break it Down” Blog.

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    [...] is similar (the same?) as Vista’s ReadyBoost technology that takes a sufficiently fast USB drive connected to the computer, and uses it in exactly the same [...]

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