How to Use a USB Flash Drive As RAM in Windows XP

u have to turn the comp off first b4 u unhook it?? or do u go in to the my computer property and make it a no paging file again??

This worked great for my desktop. I felt a huge change in seconds But I was wondering how will i know when i would have to switch out my flash drive.

what about a pc that has only one usb drive....would it be able to reconize it as a seperate drive if it were through a hub......2nd ? is if u had a a sd card that is not hc would that work the same way and so if any faster???? thanks

He has to be running windows xp an he should be using atleast 512 mb flash drive. Since u said he hs an older computer he might be using usb1.0 instead of 2.0 so it really differs from machine to machine and sometimes even from port to port

Of course i know what you mean, but basically the paging file is pretty much a temp file on a device that is used as ram - random access memory. In technicality, you're correct but im just trying to keep it simple. The neat thing is that this speeds up older pcs because the read/write speeds of flash drives are higher than the ata hard drives in old computers.

ok cool, My friend tried it but he said it didnt work. I didnt get to ask him that many questions if he did it right. His desktop computer is very old. Are there any signs that you can tell it has improved?

Technically speaking this isnt going to give you any additional RAM. You are in fact moving the paging file to a separate physical disk which is Microsoft best practise where possible :) You might want to mention the general rule about pagefile size, it should be 1.5 times the amount of RAM ;-)

Absolutely - as long as youre running xp and follow my instructions

Does it work for Desktop computer too?

ok thnx alot i will pick up 5 one gig flash drives and give-r a try i will get back to you later to tell you how it turnd out.

The ram will not show up on system properties but it does work - feel the flash drives they get warm and like i said windows xp doesnt officially support this so it wont show up - vista has something called readyboost that does this and IS supportes

Yes because if you get 5x 1 gb drives then there are 5 separate ports to send and recieve data vs 1 port hooked to 5 gb -- so multiple sticks could be up to 5 x faster. =) i apologize for not mentioning this in the vid

Woooow! ur well clever n pointless then i didnt want a usb sticking out my laptop for no reason lol its rly fast neway just wondered thanks.

Sorry this doesnt work with a mac as far as i kno-- but im quite new to macs (about 1 year) so im not the one to ask

Most likely not - vista has something called readyboost that lets you do this plus most (95%) of vista machines have ram thats already faster than a flash drive ... The only real way to be surd is to try it its very easy to undo...

works...

i setted 4gb of ram :))

is the RAM supposed to show up on the system properties? cause for me it didn't and my computer doesn't seem THAT much faster. But at least nothing crashed..