One of the best ways of using Pen Drive is as a temporary storage device i.e. RAM for our system, to increase the general boot up speed and also operational speed of the system. It can be possible with any kind of Windows operating system, all you need is a pen drive of minimum 1GB memory.

Now go with the following steps:
1. Insert the Pen Drive with 1GB at least in the USB port, better to prefer 4GB .
2. Wait for the PC to detect the pen drive.
3. After detecting it, there is a real and smart thing to do.
4. Right click on My Computer--> Properties.
5. Advanced--> Performance Settings.
6. Advanced--> Change.
7. Select the Pen Drive.
8. Click on Custom Size.
"Check the value of space available"
9. Enter the same in the Initial and Max columns.
"Here you just used the space of Pen Drive as a Virtual Memory".
10. Now restart your PC.
Finally check the general start up time and also speed of your PC. So, you can have a high speed system in low cost.

This tricks will be very helpful for those who frequently install windows xp operating system. Normally OS installation takes around 40 minutes to complete, But through this trick you can save 10-15 minutes.

Use this step by step guide....

1. Boot through Windows XP CD.

2. After all the files are completely loaded, you get the option to select the partition. Select “c”.

3. Now Format the partition, whether it is normal or quick with NTFS or FAT

4. Once the formatting is completed, All the setup files required for installation are copied. Restart your system by pressing Enter.

Now, here begins the Simple trick to save 10-15 minutes.

5. After rebooting, you get a screen where it takes 40 minutes to complete or finalize the OS installation.

6. Now, Press SHIFT + F10 Key -> This opens command prompt.

7. Enter “Taskmgr” at the command prompt window. This will open Task Manager.

8. Click the Process Tab, here we find a process called Setup.exe -> Right Click on Setup.exe -> Set Priority -> Select High or Above Normal. Initially it will be Normal.

Thats it, no more work to do. Relax and see how fast the installation process....Enjoy and repl