Speed up your netbook or laptop for cheap

I am writing this blog post from an Acer netbook (that wasnt very expensive at all) while I set and watch a movie.   My netbook like all netbooks runs windows 7.  With any computer running windows 7 you can connect a thumb drive that is “ready boost” equiped and it can act as RAM.  A ready boost thumb drive will not be as fast as on board ram because USB 2.0 is not as fast transporting data as on board RAM.  But this will speed up your netbook/laptop and make a noticeable difference for very low cost.

After you connect your thumb drive open your “computer” from the start menu.  Next right click on the drive that is your USB drive.  Example- (D) or which ever letter is assigned to your thumb drive.  Then choose “properties” from the right click menu.  Then check the tab named “ready boost” then choose to either “dedicate this device to ready boost” and then you can select the amount of memory from the thumb drive that it will dedicate to being ram for your netbook/laptop.

It is that simple.  I purchased an 8gig thumb drive that I am currently using on my netbook as 4gigs to dedicate to RAM.