Using flash drives as RAM...

[Vr3MxStyler2k3]

So I heard about Vistas ability to use flash drives as RAM - so I looked into how I could do this on XP...

After a little searching, it was pretty easy and I added technically another gig of ram...

I would say my computer is moving at a much better speed than before. Things load better and I can multi-task easier...

Nice improvement...

[Knucklehead]

Please tell me how to do that!

[haimoc]

http://www.ehow.com/how_4431896_use-flash-drive-as-ram.html

[Knucklehead]

thanks, but i think that is for Vista, I have XP though.:o

[bobman1235]

A flash drive would make good swap space, not RAM. Comapred to RAM, flash is horrifically slow.

[Knucklehead]

thats what i was thinking but the OP said he added a gig of ram with a flash drive.

[bobman1235]

I'm sure Vista listed it as RAM, but they also list swap space as RAM, and that's hard drive.

[Knucklehead]

but he's using xp

[jinjuku]

but he's using xp

He may have put in a high speed usb flash drive and told XP to use it as it's Swap File...

[Marty913]

This product can but it's $30
http://www.eboostr.com/

[nadams]

There's no substitute for real RAM. Flash drives are, as above mentioned, far too slow for this use.