Boost your RAM using a Pendrive through ReadyBoost. (Updated)

A computer first transfers data into RAM when a program starts, so it can access pieces of it faster from RAM. If these data were accessed directly from the hard drive, it would be around 10 times slower.

This is exactly why your computer slows down when RAM gets filled up due to too many running processes.

How to Boost your RAM:-

• For Windows XP, you need to use programs like ebooster. For Windows Vista and above (Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8), you can use the inbuilt ReadyBoost feature.
• When you insert your pen drive into the computer, you'll see an AutoPlay dialog box if you have not disabled AutoPlay.
• If the device is compatible, you can select the "Use This Device" as "ReadyBoost" option to enable ReadyBoost and specify how much space you want to make available to the disk cache. Using the "Dedicate this device" is recommended to avoid accidental deletion of anything in the RAM portion of the pen drive.
• Even if you have disabled AutoPlay, you can access ReadyBoost from the right click context menu of your USB drive.
• A cool feature of ReadyBoost is that all the data written to the pen drive is also mirrored on to the hard disk as well. That means even if you accidentally remove the pen drive, Windows will just continue with the data from your hard-disk. Although this will make the computer slower, it makes sure your computer doesn't hang up on you.
• Also, the cache data written to your pen drive is encrypted using the AES 128 standard. So you don't have to worry about someone stealing any data from the cache written into your pen drive.

A video Tutorial showing how to use pendrive ReadyBoost...