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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows hides many features that most people never know about, and sometimes that's for the better. Not everyone needs the Task Scheduler, Event Viewer, or Performance Monitor. And those aren't even ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...