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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...