How to use a USB Flash Drive as RAM in Windows XP
Tech With Dinjin201 – Tech Tips – Episode 1: Here, i will show you how to use a USB Flash Drive as RAM… A few Notes about this: 1. Flash memory can only be written to an x number of times (about 10 million rewrites). this means that after 1-2 years, your “flash-ram” will stop working, and you will have to buy another memory stick… 2. The second thing i wanted to mention is that you need to use ATLEAST a 512 MB Flash Drive for this. I know i used a 128 MB one in the video, but that’s all …
@citroable: no. You should first meet the requirements for the game (1GB) before you use this. It will speed up the game, but you risk crashing your system if you don’t meet req’s first.
@vikramkumarsharma: not exactly. On newer computers I would recommend this, however, old pc’s have extremely slow hard drives and this will affect your read/write time when opening large programs, further slowing the machine…
@pl4rk: not exactly. The port just remains the same. What you should do is put 2x 2Gb sticks – so it’s Like pumping water thru 2 hoses (USB ports) at the same time.
thank you very very much
If i have this and i got a computer with 1 gb ram and 512 videocard and i add a 4 gb us flash drive, have i enough ram to run games that need 2 gb ram?
In fact there are no need to use usb drive for this you can use free space of your hard disk which is more good to prevent any damage of paging file of Xp
if you have a, let’s say, 8GB usb, does it also have more speed then?
size does not matter o.0 – Yoda
Here’s a tip; A paging file is not RAM. If you need more RAM, the best solution is to acquire more RAM. Paging files are best left on hard drives, where writes aren’t nearly so damaging.
I know you said that if you pulled it out while the comp was still on that it would prolly cause your comp to crash… But what if you pulled it out while the computer is off, and then reinserted it later, would that affect anything?
thanks man! how bout on my win 7 ultimate?
@mrabc16: you’re welcome. The problem with this is that your ram must be faster or at the same speed as te USB. At the same time, the drive that you’re using must be a tad slow. All this together will keep the computer from speeding up. Not much can be done in this case
sorry. As I mentioned earlier, this works for most old pc’s. Unfortunately you seem to be an exception 
first of all thnk u for replyin. the space available in my 1gb usb is 977mb. i custom sized initial n maximum to 972mb. n i played a normal game WARCRAFT but online, n my computer started lagging. this game works in most P3 computers. i dont no y my computer starts lagging after 30mins.. coming back to the usb topic i dint feel any increase in speed also.
@mrabc16:
Your computer properties will not show the change. This is somewhat of a hack and is not supported by windows. Also, what size did you install, and did you try running a realy heavy game?
i have a pentium 4 1.8ghz desktop, 256 ram. i have 1gb kingston ram. i followed ur procedure and the MY COMPUTER properties dint show any increase in my ram. it dint even speed up. tell me wht can i do. i really need to speed up my computer. pls reply. thanku.
what happend if i use a 1TB external hard dive
i dont think it works
“MAKE SURE TO SHUTDOWN COMPUTER FIRST”
There is no any option to safe unmount the drive like in Unix based operating systems?
Does this combine with the ram installed or does the comp use the flashdrive?
This is really good, the max RAM in XP for 32 bit is 4gb, 64 bit is 128gb.
Server 08 is different 32 bit : 64gb 64 bit: 2tb (yes terabytes).
It’s a skin for XP
Does this also like, turn gay again since i got 32bit. Which not uses higher than 3gb ram. (i got 4 in it)
is this work when the usb flash is plugged or after we set it??will it work if the usb is unplugged but we already set it??im confused..
ah cool
nope… Just freaking transformation pack, and it was for 7
worked awesome!! thanks so much