SUCCESS!

Everything seems to be working. The ReadyBoost tab appears, the cache file creates properly, and the loading-light on my USB stick was always thrashing about so it seems to be good! Although, it did crash my system when i tried to shutdown... I'm pretty sure I know why it did that though and I HOPE any stability issues will not happen again, it should be working anyway maybe i should double check everything...

...but its 11:10pm here in Chittaway Bay, Australia; and I have work tomorrow. Alas its Saturday and i will be home at midday - then I will do some quick tests and such to make sure its all right, then clean it all up and make an installer for someone daring enough to test it! Stay tuned... Peace

Making the installer is being a real pain in the a$$. Trying to figure out a SAFE way that will work on ALL 2008 systems. Having trouble finding a program that APPENDS to a REG_MULTI_SZ value instead of just overwritting it [which would most definately break many systems that have non-standard services installed, such as AntiVirus and Defrag tools and such].

Eh, i'm going to install an extremely cut-down version of Server 2008 now haha and do it all from scratch with a damn complex batch file, thanks to the fancy command-line tools in the new NT6 family [such as SC.EXE].

Yeah i know its a pointless post, but I was expecting to have it done by now but jus thought i'd give you guys an update. Not long now hopefully. Peace.

Wow, JonusC I really appreciate the effort your making on behalf of resurrecting readyboost on server 2008. Thanks for the hard work! keep it up.

Haha cheers man, it's working fine ey it was no trouble and sorta fun im using it right now but sadly is still eluding my efforts to make an easy installer without breaking the system, or doing it manually [which takes 30 minutes, 5 reboots and an accompanying guide] but yeah no need to thank at all because I am just as happy as anyone is about this and I hope nobody thinks im being a huge fake here, just hold out for another day or two and I will provide a download link as soon as the kinks are worked out ;D I wont 'spam' again until its done!

good work dude, keep it up!
how do you learn to do this stuff by the way?

he wrote, he was a cracker...

which cracker group?

Thats naughty business! I don't do that stuff anymore and havn't for a long time, too many more important things to worry about than ripping off hard peoples' work


How do i learn this? With too much spare time over the past ten years haha. I can pretty much identify everything in the Windows 5/XP OS registry, classes and handles and all that.... it helps that I've been a debugger in previous jobs too!

Im still having trouble making a working installer without screwing with the security/permissions of the registry, therefore exposing Windows to possible threats in the future. I think I need to research how to make custom INF installers. If anyone can help with things like 'Creating a service with SC.ExE' and 'installing legacy drivers via command-line' please PM me as I am kind of stuck here. Thanks!

Hello everybody!

JonusC is my guru ReadyBoost in Win2008 great.

But if MS will publish some updates for ReadyBoost service (example security or performence), Windows Update from w2k8 will not see them?


//sorry for my English, I hope that it will be better soon

Good to hear you got it working! Looking forward to the installer!

How to install .inf files (taken from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\inffile\shell\Install\command)


I don't know more about sc than the command sc query, but I think you can find the information you need at Microsoft Technet: SC.

To install drivers from commandline, maybe the following page can help you:
dashken.net: Install INF Drivers From Command Line or Script

Looking forward to see the first release!

Holy crap! Keep going, dude, this is great work. I applaud your patience/craziness.

lol, this would have been my typical thought process upon doing something like this:
1) Hmm....let me poke around these files on the Vista installation..
2) F*ck this, my brain hurts, back to Organic Chem II.