windows vistas readyboost

[carlrowley1]

I have got a little confused here.
quite a few people have told me thats its ok to disable readyboost in services.msc if you don't use it.
I do not use it , not yet anyway.

So do i really need the service running, i have looked on the blackviper site, and the safe setting is automatic.

But on various websites it tells you that you can safely disable it.

10 Unnecessary Services that Can Be Safely Disabled
1. ReadyBoost
ReadyBoost is a great idea from Microsoft. Unfortunately most of us don’t use it, don’t know how to use it, or don’t even know what it does.

ReadyBoost is a new feature in Vista that allows users to use a USB flash drive, SD card, or any other type of portable memory as disk cache. It is also used in conjunction with Superfetch (the beefed up version of Prefetch from XP) which stores cache of boot up programs to help speed boot times.

If you are like me and don’t use ReadyBoost you can safely disable this service and free up any memory it is using. So locate ReadyBoost in your Services list and double click on it:

So really is it safe to disable this if you dont use it

[Quantos]

You won't even notice a performance gain, so why disable it?

[BC_Programmer]

but you can, quite safely. just remember you disabled it if you ever want to use readyboost.

[carlrowley1]

You won't even notice a performance gain, so why disable it?

Thanks, i did not know about a performance gain, i just thought you where supposed to disable any services you where not using.
That was basically my question.
But as you pointed out, leaving it running will not make hardly any difference.
So my question has been answered, so i have the choice now at least

but you can, quite safely. just remember you disabled it if you ever want to use readyboost.

Great thankyou for your reply

[2x3i5x]

if some service is running on system startup and I have determined that it is not necessary, then I'd disable that. But that's just me though .... 

[carlrowley1]

if some service is running on system startup and I have determined that it is not necessary, then I'd disable that. But that's just me though .... 

yea, thats what i was thinking, its not necessary if you don't use it, so you might as well turn it off
Here is a quote from the website

ReadyBoost
Default Description:
Provides support for improving system performance using ReadyBoost.

Additional Information:
ReadyBoost uses the Superfetch service and an USB flash drive or memory card as memory cache and performs boot optimization. If you do not use an USB flash drive in this manner, you can disable ReadyBoost, but a negitive impact on performance could result, depending upon the amount of memory installed as outline in this forum post. I recommend to leave the Superfetch service on Automatic.

here is a link to that forum post
If you fancy some reading
http://bbs.blackviper.com/index.php/topic,1434.0.html

I am not that advanced in this area, but this lead me to post the question
I have 2.0 ram, so really i am still unsure weather to disable it.

So i will probably just leave it alone for now

[2x3i5x]

Does 2.0 RAM mean that you have 2 GB of ram on your system?

I think that readyboost would be best for people whose systems are having 512 ~ 1gb of ram, which is the minimum you need to run vista but is not enough for decent vista performance. So might as well turn it off, if indeed you meant you have 2gb of ram in your system which should be plenty and I do have readyboost turned off anyway.

Also, it seems less services enabled would mean less memory that the computer will allocate to the running those services 

[patio]

ReadyBoost is generally worthless and can safely be dis-abled as a running process....

[carlrowley1]

I think that readyboost would be best for people whose systems are having 512 ~ 1gb of ram, which is the minimum you need to run vista but is not enough for decent vista performance. So might as well turn it off, if indeed you meant you have 2gb of ram in your system which should be plenty and I do have readyboost turned off anyway.

Yes sorry 2gb of ram i have

ReadyBoost is generally worthless and can safely be dis-abled as a running process....

OK, i,ll turn the service off, none of my usb sticks are compatable anyway, until i might try it one day
Thankyou all for your replys