How to enable Readyboost that is disabled in error

Insulting those trying to help you will not bring anybody to this thread.

I cited Microsoft's ReadyBoost article for Windows 7 and ealier. You have the message straight from Windows 8 that when an SSD is fitted, ReadyBoost is ignored.

Go to here for answers.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home

but don't be surprised if they are no different from what you have already been told.

BTW, you are not the first to ask this..

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/readyboost-in-windows-8/b4c0e0b6-aa62-4dca-964e-e5893a381163

This is what TechNet Magazine has to say..

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff356869.aspx

And this blog contains an FAQ by Matt Ayers, a Microsoft Program Manager

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx

And this was not anybody's opinion. It was and is Windows 8 FACT..

"This device cannot be used for ReadyBoost.

ReadyBoost is not enabled because this computer is fast enough that ReadyBoost is unlikely to provide additional benefit."

This retired IBM techie is signing out.. Good luck

If you want to cite technical articles, cite them properly.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/readyboost-in-windows-8/b4c0e0b6-aa62-4dca-964e-e5893a381163  In this setup, the primary disk is SSD. No beef there.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff356869.aspx “Since ReadyBoost will not provide a performance gain when the primary disk is an SSD, Windows 7 disables ReadyBoost when reading from an SSD drive.”  All true. I have two desktops running Readyboost off non-system, internal SATA SSDs. Whether you, retired IBM techie, think that this is a productive thing to do or not (I have seen benefits), it is an open option.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx  Now, you're citing an old article about the Vista version of Readyboost, which talks about how things worked before SSDs really came in to the picture. No mention at all about SSD.

Seriously, don't bother advising if you want to pass your opinion off as fact and smoke people out with your condescension when someone asks you to substantiate them. Read my first post and free free to sign out, please.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/6080a292-6d67-4ed8-b099-24e12c92dc58/readyboost?forum=w7itprohardware  Commenting on using small SSD as a Readyboost cache, Ketan Thakker of Microsoft had this to say:

[The limit of 32GB] is not customizable and is correctly documented at 32GB for Windows 7. The value was chosen as there was no performance increase seen by using a larger size. While you could partition the SSD into multiple 32GB partitions and create a cache on each of them, we do not expect any additional improvements from doing so.

I continue to look for an answer to this bug:

Why?

You have 4GB RAM - Readyboost will NOT give you any improvement in performance. At ALL.

Do you have any evidence to support that? Readyboost is useful whenever disk IO is limiting, and if you have a mechanical drive then IO is limiting, regardless of how much RAM you have.

A few links here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/123780/htg-explains-is-readyboost-worth-using/

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff356869.aspx