>>>>>>I'm experiencing Very Intense Suffering Through Acquisition of a piece of software that was supposed to make my IT world a better place. After recently installing what was supposed to be a Fix I have to say WOW! they made it worst than it was before.
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>>>>>>Anyone have a cure for this? Anyone heard of a fix for the fix?
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>>>>>Must be down to you Denis. I'm having no problems. Maybe its an allergy
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>>>>So you found the problem with ReadyBoost not showing up on your system?
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>>>>Have you installed SP1? I did and the suggested performance enhancements remain, to date, the reverse of what I expected.
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>>>>I haven't got much good to say about VISTA but I'm stuck with it.
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>>>I installed SP1 and the experience is not that good so far. I heard about performance improvements too. Perhaps it's an urban legend <g>
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>>>It's not like I absolutely need the performance of a Cray. I can live with Vista but I won't really recommend it. By the way excuse my ignorance but what is ReadyBoost?
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>>ReadyBoost allows you to use a USB2 memory stick (512MB - 4GB) as (sort of) extra RAM.
>>You leave the stick in 'permanently'.
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>>If you connect a stick that qualifies VISTA will provide a 'use for ReadyBoost' as an "Open" option. If you pick that it takes you to a dialogue where you tell it how to use it.
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>>I have had a 4GB stick in since my first boot of VISTA. But SP1 invalidates all its content, so I am hoping that it will soon get the stuff it needs to run me faster. Right now it's slower than pre-SP1.
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>When it worked did it make that big a difference in terms of Vista speed?

I can only *assume* so, since I had it installed since my first Vista boot last year.
I say this because MS warned in SP1 docs that ReadyBoost would have to 'rebuild itself' and so performance may take a hit until that was finished. I sure have seen the slowdown!!!

But I have 2GB RAM and most writeups on the subject say little is gained on a 2GB (or bigger) system.