Computer Cheap Fix

Submitted: Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 17:22

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Member - steveinoz (NSW)

G/Day all. for those Vista users interested in doubling there RAM. Use an equal memory stick to you RAM and follow the instructions on screen. You should see on boot up a screen asking if you want to increase the speed of your RAM. Choose yes and away you go.

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Reply By: MrBitchi (QLD) - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:04

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:04

I presume you're talking about ReadyBoost? What it actually does is work as a large disk cache, speeding up disk IO. It does nothing to speed up the ram, that's not possible unless you get in to overclocking. It will speed up your PC if you do a lot of disk IO type of work. Won't do diddly for web browsing etc.

Here's a Wiki article on it.

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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic) - Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 at 22:51

Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 at 22:51

That is right John and it will only work on faster memory sticks too, not all of them.

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Reply By: Member - Tony V (NSW) - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:16

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:16

Steveinoz,

I have been using Windows 7 operating system for the past 6 months.

It should be released in October but most likely for Microsoft February 2010.

It is 100 times better than Vista and quick with less memory and resource issues.

It does not have all the embedded rubbish and allows you to use any email or internet client you want.

Finally a product that seems to work well from Billy

Windows 7

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Follow Up By: age - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:29

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:29

Tony

I agree -I also use Vista and got used to it, but 7 is a huge improvement again and cannot wait until it is officially released. I hate going back to my XP machine now as it seems a slug, is dated and inefficient when you get into the tricks of Windows 7 - bit like it was with XP and looking back at 95/98.

As stated above Readyboost just provides I/O disk swap space

Cheers

A

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Follow Up By: zacc - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:55

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:55

Tony

Are you using the candidate version ? if so how long did it take to download and did you just install it over vista? thanks

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Follow Up By: Member - joc45 (WA) - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 20:43

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 20:43

Yeh, I was using a trial version Windows 7 on a friend's machine in Melb the other day, and was very impressed with its speed. Apparently lots less resources needed compared with Vista and lots faster. I don't use Vista myself - have been happy to stay with XP till something better replaced it - looks like W7 might be the go. Hope driver issues have been sorted out.
Gerry

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Follow Up By: zacc - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 21:28

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 21:28

Thanks Tony . My laptop came ith vista pre loaded tried puting xp on but came up with the sata driver issue . vista is a very resource hungry little fella.

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Follow Up By: MrBitchi (QLD) - Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:52

Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:52

Just a word of warning, the RC is the Ultimate version. Has all the bells and whistles. Unless you buy this version you may end up a bit disappointed when you find some of the features missing in other releases.

Zacc, you install the RC in a separate partition to vista so you end up with a dual boot system. It's a 2.5GB download so can take a while on a slow link. When the final version is released you'll need to do a complete reload (wipe vista, reformat).

Gerry, I've loaded it up on a couple of different machines and no problems with drivers so far. As long as your hardware is reasonably modern you should be OK.

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Reply By: DIO - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:54

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 18:54

Yes BUT....you do need to make sure that the device you choose is actually Ready Boost compliant. Many of the cheaper variety are NOT.

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Follow Up By: olcoolone - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 19:00

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 19:00

Isn't Ready Boost a feature of Vista and not the PC?

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Reply By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 19:59

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 19:59

You cant make slow Ram run fast, you can only use faster ram with slower ram and it will run at the lower speed.

Windows only recognizes so much ram anyway so no use stuffing 6 gig in cos it simply cant use it unless Ver 7 has changed things

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Follow Up By: Member - Christopher P (NSW) - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 20:49

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 20:49

depends on if you are using 32 bit which is limited to 4 gigs, or 64 bit which is higher like 16 off the top of my head!

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Follow Up By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 21:34

Monday, Aug 10, 2009 at 21:34

You can probably acheive the same effect by enlarging Windows swapfile as I do

Easy to do and no sus software to install.

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Follow Up By: MrBitchi (QLD) - Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:44

Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:44

You're better off installing 4GB of ram (XP will only actually use about 3.5G) and leaving windows to manage the swap file. Most XP installs run absolutely fine with 2GB ram.

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