How To Use Pen Drives as RAM on Windows XP

Written by Pavan Kumar on October 2, 2008

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You all know about using USB flash drive as RAM on Windows Vista. What if the same feature available on Windows XP? That would be a great alternative for most of the xp users who stick on to their old systems and running new softwares is not possible as they are equipped with a low RAM. Here is a nice software tool to use USB flash drives as RAM on Windows XP OS.

Slow windows based computer

Such a useful tool is developed by eBoostr and the trial version is available for free download. There is no expiration limit for trial version, but the catch is that you cannot use the tool for more than 4 hours continuously. If you want to use for more than 4 hours, you need a system restart. It is cool to use for any users who need a faster system without any extra investment.

Use USB flash drive as RAM The software is very handy in the sense that it is just 1MB to download. It supports Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 and is available in 36 languages. It requires USB 2.0 drive or memory card for operation and USB 1.1 is not supported as they tend to be very slow.

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53 Readers responded to this post

Your site is nice.

By venkat on October 4th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

@venkat

Thank you Venkat… I checked yours, even that’s really nice… with cool windows tips…

By Pavan Kumar on October 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

I tried it but didn’t find it much useful.

By Madhur Kapoor on October 5th, 2008 at 2:42 am

@Madhur Kapoor

Oops, sorry man… I never tried it before as I don’t own a thumb drive…

By Pavan Kumar on October 5th, 2008 at 8:52 am

Nice sharing. But,I think it is not that much useful, moreover it is costlier. Even in Vista, from my experience, didn’t see any improvement by using a flash drive as ram – jkwebtalks

By JK on October 8th, 2008 at 10:58 am

@JK

I did not understand what you meant by costly… It is actually a free tool… But anyway, these pen drives can never be compared with normal RAM performance…

By Pavan Kumar on October 8th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

I tried it with my 8GB thumb drive. But I had seen much improvement in the speeds. I feel my 2GB RAM is enough for my applications. And moreover you cannot expect much speeds with a removable drive. I guess there would be some difference if you use it on a machine with 128/512MB RAM.

By Techno Samrat on October 10th, 2008 at 10:19 am

@Techno Samrat

You are right. One with a better RAM would not need such tools.

By Pavan Kumar on October 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

Yeah tried this tool long back. But made no wonders with my system speed. I didn’t notice any remarkable increase in the speed. Not satisfied with it’s performance.

And i have a 512RAM. May be this is useful for a 128mb RAM systems.. lollz 😀

By Indya Labs on October 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

@Indya Labs

I wish the developers come to my blog and see the response here…

By Pavan Kumar on October 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

Pavan can you plz mail me the Registeration key for eboostr.

By Aby on November 14th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Hello pavan,how are you,well this is a type of relief for my types of users those who still uses winxp with 128mb Ram…am i right. Thank you very much for sharing with us.Anyway could you tell me what browser you use,and what operating system and what is the speed of your internet connection.

Have a great week to you and May God bless you.
Your friend-Vicky.punne4e

By punne4e on November 27th, 2008 at 8:23 am

@punne4e

Oops, you are asking me more and more details… Let me mail them for you. Keep in touch

By Pavan Kumar on November 27th, 2008 at 9:42 am

Great share. I got only 256mb. But have never tried this out yet. I’ve seen in the site that is it only a trial one and good only for 4 hours after system boot.

By Teknolohiya on January 17th, 2009 at 11:02 am

i need the full version. can you share for me?

By karem on April 27th, 2009 at 11:11 am

I have windows XP, but I know I have used my flash drive as RAM before! I dont have any special add-ons relating to that or anything, just my crappy old dinosaur and a flash drive!

By Ozaku on June 18th, 2009 at 11:29 pm

Fantastic i love it

smart
a pc with 512 Mbyte RAM go faster

but also a pc of my colleague that the pc uses very strongly (access, datawarehousing, excel, all together) with two Mbyte RAM caching in RAM some megs

put his pc in a new performarce socring

ciao

By roberto on August 26th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

I am using the software for past 3 months..
It’s really nice..
Thanks

By Balaji | BloggerPoster.co.cc on October 1st, 2009 at 4:18 pm

hey can u tel me how to use pendrive as ram dude

By sunil on October 29th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

nice post frnd.. u can read the method to use USB pendrive as RAM @ windowdows 7 in this blog article http://jeshmal4u.blogspot.com/2009/11/usb-pendrive-alternative-for-ram-in.html

By Rajesh Perumal on November 6th, 2009 at 3:02 am

thnak you .its really nice.

By bala on November 17th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

I am using the software for past 9 months..

By GRITTOMON THOMAS on November 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm

were i get this s\w

By rav on December 15th, 2009 at 1:29 pm

where hv u given d method of increasing d ram………u hv jst given abt eboostr.

By shobhu on January 26th, 2010 at 11:46 am

can u mail me urgently the license key for eboostr

By salman ali on February 9th, 2010 at 5:25 pm

thanks bro this article is realy very useful

By sumit on February 12th, 2010 at 2:24 am

Hello,
This information & the link for the software is really helpfull, i have downloaded the software & installed. even have used it with my 8Gb of pendribe, but i did not come to know that how do i monitor that wather my drive is being used by the system as RAM or not. Can u please help me out in this?
Regards,
Amish

By Amish Arora on February 17th, 2010 at 1:20 pm

Hi Pavan.
Thank u for more useful info.
BTW can i use my external HDD instead of pen drive?

By Sudharsun on February 19th, 2010 at 8:33 am

Please tel me can i use 2 GB pendriveas RAM for the processor P4???????? Rpla fast

By Aamir on February 27th, 2010 at 8:26 pm

i hve 1.1 usb drive..
suggest something for me if possible

By kshitij on March 8th, 2010 at 3:27 pm

Just goto http://csharpdemos.blogspot.com/2010/03/use-usb-pendrive-as-ram-in-windows-7.html and follow the instructions and you have find yourseft done !

By Krishan on March 18th, 2010 at 2:20 pm

how to use this softwere

By ajay on April 19th, 2010 at 3:08 pm

Wowwww!!!!!!!! tHANKS ALOT FOR HELPING ME….

By Aman on May 22nd, 2010 at 9:37 pm

The Ebooster software recommended by you was tremendous and now I have a comparatively faster system.Thanks.

By Karan Dua on June 2nd, 2010 at 11:24 pm

Please Sen Me Registration Code On My ID prince.dhiran@yahoo.com

By Prince on June 9th, 2010 at 10:29 am

i want to know how to configure linux server with windows clients i will be really happy if there were
any video tutorials available

By mohan on July 2nd, 2010 at 11:45 pm

Thank you very much for providing this information & free software here ..thank u ALL THE BEST DEAR***********

By Rakesh Tiwari on July 15th, 2010 at 6:47 pm

I have intel celeron processor and 128 mb ram .

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By Amit on August 13th, 2010 at 1:22 pm

thanks a lot for such good advice

By hemant on August 18th, 2010 at 10:07 pm

this is very useful for myself,becuz my pc is a lower configuration

By saimon thomas on September 2nd, 2010 at 10:20 am

Can anyone please email me the activation code for this? Thanks so much!

By Rahgir on September 15th, 2010 at 8:56 am

Please Send Me Registration Code On My ID arunkumar.3386@gmail.com

By arunkumar on October 16th, 2010 at 12:04 am

Dear, sir please give me eboost registration no. or key if u rable

Thanks

By MANMOHAN MISHRA on November 16th, 2010 at 3:09 am

sir , i have a usb of 4 gb … it has only 700mb free … can i use it as ram in my machine ???

my comp. has p-4 and 192 mb ram … in winxp ….. plz reply ……

By soumik on November 18th, 2010 at 12:07 pm

hi i have only 512 mb pen drive will it work on this size?

By rishabh on December 23rd, 2010 at 6:39 pm

I bought a damn craze TV USB adaptor that doesn´t allow recording videos onto removable media or remote media, so I can´t record the video onto pen drive!!! BUT this brain damaged driver full of softbug ALLOW the video to be recorded onto RAMDRIVE ! So I am trying to use a RAMDRIVE with SUBST function who allow whose memory content to be a folder onto the pendrive. CREEP UP hackers, look what we have to do when a badly planned hardware driver is released and SOLD to the public!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Lincoln B. M. on January 15th, 2011 at 11:03 pm

hey,Pavan can you plz mail me the Registeration key for eboostr.

By kedar on February 8th, 2011 at 5:55 pm

I used pen drive in office computer but my office administration not permit this. Administrator check all the system with a tracker software which display all used pen drive in system with date, Any software present which delete the record from the system?

By Ujjal on February 18th, 2011 at 12:46 am

how to use this softwere

By soumen das on February 28th, 2011 at 8:31 am

plz. give ad.

By aijaz on March 3rd, 2011 at 8:40 am

My Pen Drive is Not listed.What should I do?

By Balu on May 5th, 2011 at 12:12 pm

excellent thank u for ur suggestion

By laxman rao m on July 6th, 2011 at 2:39 pm

how to use pen drive as ram in xp gold, is there any softwere needed?

By Sher singh on July 12th, 2011 at 10:12 am