The 2000s was a decade of great change in the computer industry. The world had grown accustomed to corruptible floppy disks, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...