Have you ever had an experience where you are using a lot of programs in Windows, or a really memory intensive one, and notice that your hard drive activity light is going nuts, there is lots of noise ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several once-handy features in Windows have been rendered obsolete thanks to hardware advancements. One of these is ReadyBoost—if you're still trying to use it in 2025, you might be doing more harm ...

Windows 11/10/8/7 has improved the capabilities of ReadyBoost over Windows Vista. In this post, we will see what the ReadyBoost feature in Windows 11/10 is and how to enable ReadyBoost in Windows ...

Is ReadyBoost still an effective tool in Windows 10? Your email has been sent ReadyBoost has been around since the days of Windows Vista. Here's a look at how it works, how to take advantage of it, ...

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 ...

One of the downsides to using a netbook is that these small PCs perform much more modestly than their big laptop cousins. If you feel stymied by your netbook -- especially when starting applications ...

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 ...

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 ...