How to use a USB Flash Drive as RAM in Windows XP
Tech With Dinjin201 – Tech Tips – Episode 1: Here, i will show you how to use a USB Flash Drive as RAM… A few Notes about this: 1. Flash memory can only be written to an x number of times (about 10 million rewrites). this means that after 1-2 years, your “flash-ram” will stop working, and you will have to buy another memory stick… 2. The second thing i wanted to mention is that you need to use ATLEAST a 512 MB Flash Drive for this. I know i used a 128 MB one in the video, but that’s all i had empty for the moment… and as you saw, it didnt do much. 3. Good Luck, Please subscribe, and all comments are appreciated. The Following are tags, please ignore: USB Flash Drive How to Windows XP RAM Computer speed up Tips Dinjin201 Technology Random Access Memory
you can have multiple paging files in different locations. Unless you set a paging file on your HDD (basically, just dont tamper with the other settings) nothing will happnen.
I do warn you that for the stability of windows, it is recommended to use a paging file.
Who’s using win 7 beta? lol IM NOT
It is windows xp. In windows VISTA or 7 you can use a built in feature called READYBOOST. google it – its 10 times easier to set up than what i have.
No… I just made my windows xp look like vista. You can, however, use a virtualization suite like Virtualbox (free) that lets you run a second operating system in a window (and install programs to it and run things in it that wouldnt run in vista)
You do need a pretty powerful computer to run VirtualBox
my MP3 was already fucked up at the start. for some reason it never wanted to play music no matter how much you put in it
i onlu use it as a pen drive
@dinjin201 Hi, surprised to read a reply. It is probably just coincidence, because of the age of the PC, but I think it at least contributed in it, accelerated it.
Can not say that for sure, just wanted to inform the people, no critizism to you, was just a warning to do it.
didnt want to be mean or badly critize you!
Oh, in that case, if u can use it as a pen drive, it should work for this purpose as well
Hey, its no problem at all. at the moment, you seem to be the only person to have this issue, so i’m not sure why. It may have caused an acceleration, but i wont know for sure. I have 3 machines running at home using this trick and nothing has happened yet – one of them was purchased in 2002.
The criticism is good. I’d rather be cirticized and realize i made a mistake then lie to the thousands who’ve watched this video. Im here to help, not harm.
@dinjin201 if just everybody would be like you here in youtube. . .
thanks anyway, at least it worked for a short time and if nobody elses rig got hurt, probably just as you mentioned.
thanks anyway and thanks for the replies
Well I got a new pc with win 7 about a month ago so I have an old Dell with win xp that I use for games cuz I use win 7 for vpc and video edting I am trying to play rtc3 and once my park gets big the game lags to shit so if I do this in theroy it should speed it up cuz I got the game set on high proformance. I just did it and decided to tell u this on my iPod touch cuz my win xp has no inet and sum one is using my win 7 pc.
thank you very much for this wonderful video
i have 2 questions.
is windows 7 any good?
and would this work for 7?
@cinnacook
no its not gonna work
windows 7 is very hard and your drivers may not work and you cant download drivers for windows 7 from internet becose its new
windows 8 is beter and on win 8 its gonna work this hack for RAM
i cant rename it way?
which windows 7 transformation pack are u using?
@cinnacook it works
thanks alott
thx alot man, really helped speed up my old xp computer!
THANK YOU MAN!!!…My Old Computer Is Much Faster TYTYTYTY, ima sub you
dude i have a usb kingston 32 gb
and want to try it on a lap sony vaio xp sz33op series with
2gb of ram.
the questn.. will it work if i try or will i f%%k things up ????
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i have a 4gb flash drive and a 1gb ram card i bought it in like 2005 but im not sure if i need to do this or not do you think i should use it reply?
@starsky1313:
In my opinion, don’t bother. From the feedback I’ve gotten, this usually helps for computers that are 2003 and earlier. Hope this helps
@albors91:
it should work. If I’m not mistaken, xp limits you to 4098, but it should work.
@theras18:
Sorry I haven’t been on lately, but thanks… Let’s be friends on YouTube. Maybe one day more people will see the sense in integirty vs just popularity
can i use 32gb usb to my ram?