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ReadyBoost

Unless you are lucky enough to have a brand-spankin' new computer or one that has a solid state hard drive, you may benefit from some extra speed.

Windows 7 includes a seldom used feature called ReadyBoost.  Take an extra USB flash drive sitting around and plug it into your desktop computer.  You may see an AutoPlay window pop up showing an option near the bottom of the list called Speed up my system using Windows ReadyBoost.  Click this option.

If you don't see this AutoPlay window appear when you plug in a flash drive, you can right-click the drive letter of the USB drive, choose Properties, and click the ReadyBoost tab to get to the same place.

You can choose to dedicate the flash drive to maximize the performance increase, or if it's a large flash drive, you can choose to allocate only part of it to ReadyBoost and leave the rest for storage.

I used to use this all the time!...  Until my hard drive died and I got a new solid state drive!  If your computer isn't brand new and you have an extra USB stick laying around, try this for a speed boost.  =D

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