That's not true for Windows 7. Per Microsoft, you can use 8 devices for a max of 256gb for ReadyBoost. See at link here ReadyBoost - Windows 7 features - Microsoft Windows4 GB is the largest that ReadyBoost can use although Microsoft is trying to increase that amount so go with 4 GB.
Like I said do try to get a USB Flash Drive that is capable of over 30 MBps sequential read time.
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Let's just say you are about 5-7 years late to that party. There's a reason why he's known as QuackViper, and why posting a link to his sites ruins a person's credibility. Yes, it is true he has updated his website some to remove some of his trouble advice, but his credibility has been completely gone for quite some time.
Because of dependencies, and due to the fact that these "tweaks" have been tested, retested, and then retested again until the reviewers have been blue in the face. Disabling services provides you with no gain whatsoever in terms of performance. It's honestly been this stale, and rehashed FAR too many times to even go into a big discussion. If you don't believe me, head over the HardForums.com, create a thread suggesting people follow BlackViper's advice, and wait to see what happens. You'll have developers from Microsoft posting links and suggested tests to prove that disabling services provides no benefit. it is to the point that the mere mention of BlackViper gets a person flamed. I could even give you the username of a guy who wrote several articles on testing methods, which were all confirmed by Anandtech as well.
Somewhat incorrect. If you are like most enthusiasts or astute users, as you say, you'll know this has been rehashed to death, to the point it is now considered fact. I know that sounds harsh, and I'm not going to make any assumptions about your age, skill level, experience in computers, etc. All I'm going to tell you is that concept of disabling services in the name of performance or saving resources was utterly and completely debunked in XP, and even moreso in Vista and Windows 7.
However, you do bring up a good point in your last paragraph. ALL of my comments are referring to Windows services, not 3rd party apps. Most OEMs junk up their systems with unneeded crap that can be removed or disabled. That's why any enthusiast that buys an OEM system will wipe it clean and do a fresh install themselves. For those not wanting to go that route, apps like Revo Uninstaller and PC Decrapifier. Cleaning up 3rd party crap is always a good idea, and can definitely inprove performance, especially boot times. Ever troubleshoot a computer that has 4 different IM apps set to run at startup?
If you saw it on YouTube, it must be true :). In all seriousness, the only time I would consider disabling superfetch was if I had 512MB of RAM, or if I was using an SSD for my main hard disk (Win7 already does the latter if it detects your SSD properly). Superfetch actually makes Win7 *faster* by attempting to cache in RAM your most frequently accessed things from the hard disk, to speed up application load times. There are very few scenarios where disabling superfetch would improve performance, and all of those would be applicable only if you had less than 1GB of RAM in your machine.
Correct - the service is actually called "SysMain", and it's not a visible service (there are quite a few services that are on the system and can be found in the registry, but not in the services UI). You can find it's configuration under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SysMain.
Correct - the service is actually called "SysMain", and it's not a visible service (there are quite a few services that are on the system and can be found in the registry, but not in the services UI). You can find it's configuration under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SysMain.
is it there?
So with a ssd on my sysytem and 4gb of ram is a 8gb patriot usb drive ready for boost gonna make anything faster for me or should i diss conect it?
Unfortunately you are several years late in telling the 1,000's upon 1,000's of us who's computers have benefited from cutting the massive amount of totally unneeded services in Vista and Win 7 many of which are scheduled to run daily collecting data for Microsoft because we already know better and we greatly value our privacy.
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I'll make a suggestion. Instead of treating this as a my opinion versus your opinion...do some of your own reading on the subject. The facts are out there, and have been for quite some time. I'd be more than happy to find you some links with credible, valid sources. Don't do it because of this "debate". Do it as a learning opportunity for yourself.
I can't stress it enough, that disabling Windows services isn't going to yield any performance gains. It's been proven time and time again, over and over, ad nauseum. I'm not here posting this to "win". I'm posting this information so facts are there for people wanting to know them. If you really don't buy into the facts yet, I'll be happy to dig up some links for you.
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