Use Pendrive or Flash drive as RAM

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This article is written by one of my good friend Sunil. It’s all about playing android apps and games on your computer. This is fun trick. 

You cannot work properly with a RAM of one or two GB capacity during gaming or multimedia work. You must have at least 4 GB of RAM to use these applications. Therefore, if you are using Windows7, you have no need to install additional RAM.

People generally make a complaint about slow performance of their PC so; to increase the speed of PC the user shall have to go for an additional capacity of RAM. I would suggest such users to not to increase physical RAM but to use pen-drive to increase the capacity of the RAM.

For Windows 7 users:

Window7 users can easily increase their RAM and boost up their computer performance using their pendrive. There is a ready boost application in windows7 that can use removable disc, USB, memory card, Flash memory, Memory stick and USB pen-drive as memory cache hence increasing the capacity of RAM.

How to do it?

>> Insert Pendrive

>> Right click on pendrive from My Computer and click on properties

>> From property page click on ReadyBoost tab

>> Then select Use this device from the window as shown in below image

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>> Set size from the bottom slide bar

>> Click on Apply

That’s it. Now your pendrive is working as RAM as per available and selected size. Now you will notice the improved performance of your computer. You will also notice that now your pendrive or flash drive is not empty anymore. I mean as you are using its space as RAM now you can see that it is full as per space you selected. I have selected whole space of pendrive to boost up performance, so it is showing full in below image.

To make this flash drive or pendrive normal again, just click on Do not use this device from the Ready Boost tab in the property page (as shown in property image above) and apply the settings. This will free your pendrive/flash drive memory again.

Please keep in mind that you can increase the capacity of your RAM by up to three times from your present capacity. In case your present capacity is 1GB, you can extend it by another 2GB to make it 3GB. So this lesson ends here for windows 7 users. Now it is time for Windows XP users.

For Windows xp users

There are still many users that are using windows xp. Well, they can do this same thing took, but the process is little complicated in compare of above process for windows 7. No need to worries it is still easy.

How to do it?

>> First Right click on My Computer from start menu

>> From Properties window go to Advance

>> Then select Settings of Performance section

>> In this again choose Advance and then select Change on virtual memory section

>> From this page just select your pendrive or flash drive from the available drive options and se the values which you want to use to boost up the performance of your computer.

>> And apply the settings.

This is it for the windows xp users. By this way you can use your pendrive or flash drive to boost up the memory in different windows operating system. So try it out and enjoy the extended RAM to have all the fun.

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