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I've seen many tutorials on monitoring ready boost in Vista to see if its
performing correctly, however I seem to be missing the counters in
Performance Monitor to monitor it?
How do I add them, are they Windows 7 only? Seems they aren't installed on
my system?

I tried the tutorial at
http://www.bleepingc...utorial136.html
and this is how I noticed I am missing these counters.

I also tried a program created to monitor it, but it errors out (probably
because it uses the same performance counters I am missing?)
Found it at: http://area-71.net/rbmon/

Thanks in advance!

-Joe

Persoanlly, I've disabled this thing as soon as analyzed its functionality.
Furthermore, I've read OTHER PEOPLE who also expalined why it makes sense to
disable.
It's one of the "niceties" of Vista you can live without, and it strongly
depends on the perforamnce of flashmemroy device.

Those from Patriot Memory or Corsair are the best.
Those from cheap taiwanese makers - well, they're OK but but not like the
above. They're somehwat cheaper.

Trust me, Vista without "ReadyBoost" is fine - and disabling this service in
Services.msc only adds to stability, and fewer services --> faster, leaner
machine in general (not always but generally fewer is better).

I didn't ask for you to tell me how to turn it off, obviously I like the
performance boost.
I have 4GB of ram and 4GB of ReadyBoost on a 300x patriot drive, works like
a champ!

Boot time is noticeably faster and so is launching large apps such as
Photoshop, Visual Studio, etc.

"Stan Starinski" wrote in message
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Persoanlly, I've disabled this thing as soon as analyzed its functionality.
Furthermore, I've read OTHER PEOPLE who also expalined why it makes sense to
disable.
It's one of the "niceties" of Vista you can live without, and it strongly
depends on the perforamnce of flashmemroy device.

Those from Patriot Memory or Corsair are the best.
Those from cheap taiwanese makers - well, they're OK but but not like the
above. They're somehwat cheaper.

Trust me, Vista without "ReadyBoost" is fine - and disabling this service in
Services.msc only adds to stability, and fewer services --> faster, leaner
machine in general (not always but generally fewer is better).

I found another way to monitor this via the Event Logs, but the details are
sparse..

"Joseph N. Stackhouse" wrote in message
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I didn't ask for you to tell me how to turn it off, obviously I like the
performance boost.
I have 4GB of ram and 4GB of ReadyBoost on a 300x patriot drive, works like
a champ!

Boot time is noticeably faster and so is launching large apps such as
Photoshop, Visual Studio, etc.

"Stan Starinski" wrote in message
news:#AyosaJJLHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

Persoanlly, I've disabled this thing as soon as analyzed its functionality.
Furthermore, I've read OTHER PEOPLE who also expalined why it makes sense to
disable.
It's one of the "niceties" of Vista you can live without, and it strongly
depends on the perforamnce of flashmemroy device.

Those from Patriot Memory or Corsair are the best.
Those from cheap taiwanese makers - well, they're OK but but not like the
above. They're somehwat cheaper.

Trust me, Vista without "ReadyBoost" is fine - and disabling this service in
Services.msc only adds to stability, and fewer services --> faster, leaner
machine in general (not always but generally fewer is better).

"Joseph N. Stackhouse" <junkmauler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:#yQWGzIJLHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> I've seen many tutorials on monitoring ready boost in Vista to see if its performing correctly,
> however I seem to be missing the counters in Performance Monitor to monitor it?
> How do I add them, are they Windows 7 only? Seems they aren't installed on my system?
>
> I tried the tutorial at http://www.bleepingc...utorial136.html
> and this is how I noticed I am missing these counters.
>
> I also tried a program created to monitor it, but it errors out (probably because it uses the same
> performance counters I am missing?)
> Found it at: http://area-71.net/rbmon/
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Joe
>

You right-click on the performance graph and ' Add counters'.

"Joseph N. Stackhouse" <junkmauler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've done this and there are many counters, but none to do with ReadyBoost, I think they are
> missing somehow on my system.. Wonder how to reinstall them
>

Apparently they aren't named as ReadyBoost:
http://techrepublic....ssageID=3268903

Quote from the web page:

"Vista's counters are named:
Cache reads/sec
Hit read bytes/sec
Invalidated update buffer blocks/sec
Invalidated update buffer bytes/sec

Keep in mind, that in both Windows Vista and Windows 7, Performance Monitor will
not display the ReadyBoost Cache counters unless you have a device connected and
configured to use ReadyBoost.
In other words, if you are not using ReadyBoost, Performance Monitor doesn't show
the ReadyBoost Cache counters. "

I still do not see these counters, in fact it looks like I'm missing a
few??? I remember in XP I could keep track of memory, disk activity etc..
in Vista I see categories but none with these counters in them?

See attached photo... I know ReadyBoost is working because if I look at Disk
Activity in the Performance and Reliability screen I can see it read/write
to the cache file on the flash drive.



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"Joseph N. Stackhouse" <junkmauler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u50vklVJLHA.1744@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I've done this and there are many counters, but none to do with
> ReadyBoost, I think they are missing somehow on my system.. Wonder how to
> reinstall them
>

Apparently they aren't named as ReadyBoost:
http://techrepublic....ssageID=3268903

Quote from the web page:

"Vista's counters are named:
Cache reads/sec
Hit read bytes/sec
Invalidated update buffer blocks/sec
Invalidated update buffer bytes/sec

Keep in mind, that in both Windows Vista and Windows 7, Performance Monitor
will
not display the ReadyBoost Cache counters unless you have a device connected
and
configured to use ReadyBoost.
In other words, if you are not using ReadyBoost, Performance Monitor doesn't
show
the ReadyBoost Cache counters. "