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SSD and monitoring writing to C:\Windows\Prefetch\ReadyBoot\ReadyBoot.etl

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Problem

I have been monitoring write activity to the following file. Since I have Windows 7 installed on an SSD, that there would not be any readyboost activity. Why is that file being written to? I thought these sort of services were disabled automatically. EDIT: There is no ReadyBoost service I can see.

Error Output

C:\Windows\Prefetch\ReadyBoot\ReadyBoot.etl

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Fix for: SSD and monitoring writing to C:\Windows\Prefetch\ReadyBoot\ReadyBoot.etl

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There is a difference between ReadyBoost and ReadyBoot. On systems with more than 700MB of RAM, ReadyBoot uses data from 5 previous boots to create a plan for a boot-time memory cache. Similar to Windows XP prefetcher, it will try to preload files i…

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