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 ...

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 ...

One of the many benefits touted in Windows Vista is ReadyBoost, a new feature that allows the OS to use flash drives as pseudo-RAM in order to increase performance. However, in order for this to work, ...

The people from PCWorld.com ran some tests on Windows Vista's new feature called ReadyBoost, a technology that claims to speed up Windows by plugging a USB flash drive into your PC in order to create ...

I just bought a 4 GB flash drive specifically for ReadyBoost. Imagine my surprise when I enabled it and everything stops working.<BR><BR>No ReadyBoost:<BR>View image ...

We've all heard of ReadyBoost and how it can improve performance of Windows Vista. The problem is that it requires you to plug in a flash drive to one of your free ...