While it's not as necessary on newer hardware, old and less capable desktops or laptops could get a helpful boost from any ...

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 ...

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 ...

Readyboost caches frequently used program files and is meant to speedup boot times and application launch times. In addition to using the drive for readyboost you can also put your pagefile and temp ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...