How to use USB flash drive as ram in windows 8, 7 and XP (pendrive).

Many of the programs in the system uses lots of memory during operations. The processing speed of a system depends on RAM. For those systems which has low RAM this will be a nightmare. So to solve this problem use your pendrive or USB as a RAM.

Using pendrive as a RAM increases the system performance. It is not a difficult process you can easily do this with the help of the following simple steps.

First insert your pendrive (minimum 2GB recommended).

Format your pendrive.

Steps for Windows XP

• Right click on “My Computer” and go to “properties”.
• Now click on ‘Advance tab’.
• Click on the ‘settings’ of performance.
• Now the performance options appear. Go to ‘Advance tab’.
• Click on ‘change’ option of virtual memory.

• Select your pen drive.
• Click on ‘custom size’ which is a radio button. It displays the initial and maximum size of the pen drive.
• Click on ‘set’ button.
• Click ‘OK’ to complete the setup. 

Finally you had to restart your PC.

Steps for Windows 8 and 7

• Plug in your Pen drive.
• Format it.
• Right click on the pen drive icon.
• Select ‘properties’.

• Select ‘Ready boost’.
• Click “use this device”.
• Now select the maximum space that  RAM can give to the computer.
• Click ‘ok’ and ‘apply’.

This is how you can use your USB as RAM. This results in the improvement in performance of your PC.