How To Use a USB Pendrive As RAM

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If you want to boost the performance of your PC (Windows XP, 7, and 8) without any extra investment like buying new hardware, then, i have a simple trick to use Pen drive or any flash drive as ram.
Pen drive is most commonly used to transport data.Your pen drive can also be used as RAM that will increase your general and operational speed, We will do this with some modified settings, Just follow my steps.



For windows XP users

First of all connect your pen drive to your PC (Pen drive should be at least 1 GB)

After your PC finished it's detection work follow the steps below.

Step 1- Right click on the my computer and click on properties

Step 2- Click on advanced tab and then click on performance

Step 3- Now click on advanced and then click on the virtual memory

Step 4- Select your flash drive and click custom size

Step 5- Now view the memory available in your flash drive and write it down then click on OK

Now you are done, Restart your PC and enjoy your fast system.

Windows Vista and windows 7/8/8.1

Windows Vista and windows 7/8/8.1 comes with a ReadyBoost option. ReadyBoost is a disk cache component of Microsoft. It works by using flash memory, a USB flash drive, SD card or any flash mass storage drive as a cache. Anyway that's enough theory, now see how to use this feature.

Step 1- Insert your flash drive and format it with FAT32 or NTFS

Step 2- Right click on your external device volume and click on properties

Step 3- Now click on ready boost tab and then 'use this device'

Step 4- Choose maximum space to reserve system speed then click on OK and Apply


Now your ReadyBoost flash drive is ready to use.

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