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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OK, I've got a machine with a Phenom II x4 940 and 4GB of RAM. I've got an extra 4GB flash drive with a broken case, that I'm thinking I can devote to ReadyBoost. Is there any point to doing so? Will ...

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 ...

ReadyBoost has been around since the days of Windows Vista. Here’s a look at how it works, how to take advantage of it, and when you should forgo it. Back in 2007, Microsoft introduced a new disk ...

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 ...

Windows Vista has a new feature that's designed to give users a quick, simple and cheap way to boost the performance of their Vista-powered PC - it's called ReadyBoost. But what is ReadyBoost? How ...