The prompt is for Ready Boost, a feature of Windows 7 that's supposed to store some of your frequently used files on a flash drive for faster booting. Articles I have read in PC World said that it doesn't provide much benefit. I have never tried it. If you were going to use a flash drive in this way, you would want to leave that particular drive plugged in all of the time, I think.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Richcreek [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:57 PM > To: fGW-Micro > Subject: Re: speed up my system with windows ready boot > > Hi Don, I have been seeing that only lately after I haven't used that > removable drive for months and of corse I wouldn't run it without knowing. > Have you tried looking it up on Google yet? If you get any information > from anywhere, Please let me know what you find? Thank you, Craig R. > > From: donald E. Bowen, Jr. <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: speed up my system with windows ready boot > > > Hi, > > > > A new one on me. I inserted one of my usb thumb drives into one of my > windows 7 computers usb ports and along with the usual what do you want > windows to do menu items was a choice called speed up your system with > windows ready boot. Anybody seen this? Anybody know what it's about? > > > > Thanks, > > Donald > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
