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XP/Vista Advice...
It might be another option. The M7 may be EOL'd, but I wouldn't be surprised in another followed with similar specs. After all, the M4 was superceded by the M7. for use with ReadyBoost, etc etc... BTW, a side question: Can I do an online upgrade of Vista Business to Vista Ultimate on an OEM version of Vista?

Readyboost and Optical Disk Drive Errors (Event ID: 51)
Nowhere have I found this general question answered so I'll try it here. I'm interested if others have this kind of issue and if so what they've done about it. In Vista how would I go about changing the characteristics of my machine depending upon what I'm using it for? To put it another way, how do I select a

everything Vista
I think the above would be the case.. much like readyboost USB writes the same data on the USB drive... by the way.. I am able to add a pagefile on a removable USB 2.0 flashdrive.. someone said you cant! lol another misinformed vista user? We have lots of those... Lots, and lots and lots. Some are MVPs.

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You have already done a lot but if you could answer these questions we may be able to narrow the condition down even further. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP The drives will read the same media that fails in these drives on this machine provided that has had a recording made on it on another machine.

Severe bug/problem with Instant Search and Outlook 2007
To configure drive for quick removal, Open Device Manager; expand "Disk drives" node; double click drive in question; on the Policies tab make sure If I try "safely remove hardware" again, it again refuses, and goes into another flurry of disk activity. The result is that I can't safely remove the device,

System Recovery
The reason why I am taking such a harsh approach is because none of the usb drives (ipod, camera, flash) is even capable of readyboost and was not activated as such. Anyway, I am happy since I never use readyboost. The next question is, why is the ready boost service causing BOD? but that is for another time

Readyboost questions...
I also have a 2 GB USB 2.0 flash drive set for Readyboost. I have noticed substantial improvement. The performance of Battlefield 2142 is pretty much where That's another mistake. Windows needs wiggle room to work at it's best. Your root drive should be at LEAST twice as large as the size Windows itself takes

Stay with XP or go to VIsta
Since with 2GB of real RAM you may not have any read paging file activity then you are correct in stating that a Ready Boost drive will not help you. 3. Another item you might check is to be sure that you have both disk caching and DMA disk transfers enabled. 4. Be sure in user profiles is not enabled and a legacy

WinFS Dies (And Yet ANOTHER Feature Conceded)
Steve st...@worldstart.com FISICA_TEORICA A Quicker Scroll I know we've given you some mouse scrolling tips in the past, but I have another great one for you .... A: That's an excellent question and all I can say is you need to get yourself some mouse trails! No, no, I'm not talking about that kind of mouse trail.

USB - removing hardware safely?
Again, another example would be the way the sound is set up in Vista. I run sound programs such as Reason and Sonar on 2 different sound cards at times. My ultimate question is, with what I am expecting from a computer, a workhorse, is Vista not the best choice yet? Should I uninstall and wait for future

Speed of Vista
So rather than answering the question, you simply sidestep it. Figures. He didn't sidestep. He answered right below that. ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive, The Sidebar, the new "instant on" sleep mode that's more like hibernate, new applets like a comprehensive backup program, Speech Recognition, etc.

most asked questions about vista!!!
I'm not looking to store any files on it just to use for readyboost, thanks If it were me, I'd spring for another 1GB of RAM rather than either. The difference in cost between that and the flash drive is not enormous, but the improvement in performance would very likely be significant. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

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I'm not lecturing you--I'm acquainting you with it because it answers 85% of the questions posed on this group now and another 10% are answered by using View>Find in I discussed this briefly in my blog post about ReadyBoost. SuperFetch watches how you work and then uses the RAM on your system in a new way that

ReadyBoost crap shoot
On a system with specs you describe, I don't think ReadyBoost would provide a noticeable effect. You'd do better to root out all the crapware that Toshiba may have included, and get some utilities to help tweak the performance. Microsoft has a great free download called Autoruns.zip and there's another free tool

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NOSPAM microsoft public windows vista general Richard, I'm glad someone agrees with me that ReadyBoost has little benefit especially with Memory of 2GB. My own machine has 1.5GB RAM and, for the life of me, I cannot see any improvement in performance yet, in another post where i post that ReadyBoost wouldn't give

Fwd: Vista's Appeal More Than Skin Deep
That begs another question...how is 64 bit? Will I lose a lot of drivers for multimedia operations etc., if I bump to 64 bit? <snip> You're welcome. Sorry I don't use the 64bit version. Maybe better if you post a new question or do some searching in these Vista newsgroups and in Google. There has been much said on

Readyboost Question
It's cumbersome to go through the motions of opening one instance of Explorer, sizing it, opening another instance, and sizing that one. USB Flash Memory for Vista's ReadyBoost http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-3280-5-55-333021-410945-0-0-0-1 Hybrid HD DVD/Blu-Ray Disc Patented

IMPORTANT CHANGES TO VISTA ACTIVATION
Is your USB thumb drive Vista ReadyBoost certified? I am assuming that means Lavender isn't qualified. Um, okay, but I was asking you a question, The name change is just YET another stupid exhibit of that lack of pride. Beside the achievement I listed, this is also the school that beats Stanford several times

readyboost question again
(other than staying on MCE2005) "xiowan" wrote: Hi all: I currently have a homebuilt Intel Viiv computer with nearly 2 TB's of recorded material and have a question about how Vista handles "recorded tv". I tried Vista on another of my computers and when you clicked recorded tv....instead of showing a list of

Vista Ready Boost (USB RAM Addon) Delivers Too Little
Patents were originally created to protect the little guy who invents a gizmo, tries to sell it, but sees another company come along, copy the gizmo, ..... I have replicated this no less than 30 times on my laptop with a ReadyBoost drive plugged in. Unplugging the drive never fails to fix the problem and plugging