My colleague George Ou has an excellent rant on flash drive performance. As he notes, many people are in for a rude shock when they plug in a USB flash drive, Compact Flash card, or SD card and expect ...

On the plus side, one of the Vista's most useful new features is a utility called ReadyBoost. This utility lets a user to plug in a compatible Flash drive and turn over some (or even all) of the drive ...

Use ReadyBoost to improve performance with USB flash drives. With cheap memory and dual- and quad-core processors, only hard-disk speed limits the performance of many computers. Microsoft hopes to ...

The ReadyBoost feature in Windows 8 allows you to gain minor increases in performance by making use of the free space on a flash drive. However, Windows 8 does not provide any indication as to whether ...

February 6, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Windows only: Speed up your computer with a spare USB thumb drive with eBoostr, an XP-only application that ...

There has been a lot of mixed feedback on Vista's ReadyBoost feature. Some say they have noticed significant performance boosts, some no seeing any real difference and others finding a drop in ...

Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system looks great and offers several improvements over Windows XP, but it’s also a memory hog. Using Vista with 512MB of memory is like wading through ...

To boost the responsiveness of today's PCs, Microsoft Corp. introduced PC accelerators — a set of caching technologies for Windows Vista. These accelerators, such as SuperFetch, Windows ReadyDrive and ...

I've heard that Windows Vista's ReadyBoost and SuperFetch features can speed up my PC. Is this true, and if so how much improvement can I expect? You hear correctly. Two of Vista's most useful new ...

A few months ago, I bought two 240gb SSD drives, one each for my desktop and laptop. I installed the laptop right away and love it, but I've been procrastinating on my desktop (Windows 7 x64) because ...

ReadyBoost is one of those Vista features that still has some confusion around it. This post isn’t going to clear all of that confusion up, but some recent discoveries make things a bit less murky in ...

I thought ReadyBoost just helped with things like launching apps or retrieving apps from a minimized state to max faster. But if you check out this GameSpot link, it seems to imply that games benefit ...