How to use pendrive as ram memory in windows 7

 Hi friends, Windows 7 and Windows vista comes with a ready boost option. Q-What is ready boost

Ans- "ReadyBoost is a disk cache component of Microsoft Windows, first introduced with Microsoft'sWindows Vista in 2006 and bundled with Windows 7 in 2009. It works by using flash memory, a USB flash drive,SD card, CompactFlash, external hard drive

 or any kind of portable flash mass storage system as a cache. ReadyBoost is also used to facilitate SuperFetch, which allows it to perform analysis of boot-time disk usage patterns and creates a cache which is used in subsequent system boots." Source

If you are using a high configuration PC, It doesn't show any effect on speed because if you are a normal user I think only a few times you use your full ram memory but if you are using an old pc with low ram memory(Like 512 MB or IGB) and harddisk & using vista or 7. It speed up your PC and you will see the result, reduced application data loading time, reduced shutdown and restart time and many more you can't imagine without High ram memory. How to use this feature

Plug in your pendrive-> Format with NTFS or FAT32

Now go to properties->Select ReadyBoost

Check Use this device->Choose maximum space to reserve system speed

Click on Apply and OK. Your readyboost PenDrive is ready Now to Use.

Here is an personal suggestion HP and Sandisk is the Best for this work so what are you waiting for.

How to Create Your Own Customized Run Commands

The Run command on Microsoft Windows operating system allows you to directly open an application or document with just a single command instead of navigating to it’s location and double-clicking the executable icon. However, it only works for some of the inbuilt Windows programs such as Command prompt (cmd), Calculator (calc) etc. So, have you ever wondered how to create your own customized Run commands for accessing your favorite programs, files and folders? Well, read on to find out the answer.

Creating the Customized Run Command

Let me take up an example of how to create a customized run command for opening the Internet explorer. Once you create this command, you should be able to open the Internet explorer just by typing “ie” (without quotes) in the Run dialog box. Here is how you can do that.

1. Right click on your Desktop and select New -> Shortcut.

2. You will see a “Create Shortcut” Dialog box as shown below

3. Click on “Browse”, navigate to: Program Files -> Internet Explorer from your Root drive (usually C:\) and select “iexplore” as shown in the above figure and click on “OK”.

4. Now click on “Next” and type any name for your shortcut. You can choose any name as per your choice; this will be your customized “Run command”. In this case I name my shortcut as “ie”. Click on “Finish”.

5. You will see a shortcut named “ie” on your desktop. All you need to do is just copy this shortcut and paste it in your Windows folder (usually “C:/Windows”). Once you have copied the shortcut onto your Windows folder, you can delete the one on your Desktop.

6. That’s it! From now on, just open the Run dialog box, type ie and hit Enter to open the Internet Explorer.

In this way you can create customized Run commands for any program of your choice. Say “ff” for Firefox, “ym” for Yahoo messenger, “wmp” for Windows media player and so on.

To do this, when you click on “Browse” in the Step-3, just select the target program’s main executable (.exe) file which will usually be located in the C:\Program Files folder. Give a simple and short name for this shortcut as per your choice and copy the shortcut file onto the Windows folder as usual. Now just type this short name in the Run dialog box to open the program

How To Password Protect Your Pen Drive

Do you carry sensitive data in your pen drive? Then you should carefully keep your pen drive. Oh! You mean you are not that careful too. Then I would suggest that you should password protect your pen drive. Yes folks, you can do this by a simple method. This is an added advantage to Windows Vista and Windows 7 users that they can easily password protect their pen drives with the help of BitLocker Drive Encryption. Its an inbuilt feature of both of these operating systems.

Today we will try to understand that how we can password protect our pen drive. But before going to the process we must consider the advantages which you get by doing this.

• First of all your data remains safe. Nobody other than you can decrypt or unlock the pen drive.

• Secondly, if any how your pen drive is lost or gets stolen then also no one can use it without unlocking it with the help of correct password.

Process To Password Protect Pen Drive

• Insert your pen drive which you want to password protect.

• Click start and open Control Panel.
  

(Quick Tip : To skip the next three steps  type BitLocker in the search box and hit enter.)

• Go to System and Security > BitLocker Drive Encryption.

 

• Find your pen drive listed amongst all the drives.

• Turn on Bitlocker for your pen drive. System will few seconds to turn this feature on.

• A window will open in front of you asking your desired password which you want to keep for your pen drive. Click next when you done with setting up the password.

• Store your recovery key at your desired place. Click next to continue. Recovery key can be used if in case you forget your set password.

• System will ask you to start encryption for your pen drive. Encryption will take some time.

• Once the encryption is over you will see a lock symbol on your pen drive icon.

   

• Remove the pen drive and re-insert it. System will ask you to enter the password to access the data.

So this is how you can password protect your pen drive. Encrypting data with the help of BitLocker Drive encryption is really simple. Just follow this process and get rid of your tension of losing your data.