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 ...

One of the downsides to using a netbook is that these small PCs perform much more modestly than their big laptop cousins. If you feel stymied by your netbook -- especially when starting applications ...

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 ...

Since you’re all up to speed on Vista’s SideShow feature, it may be time to check out Vista’s other new introductions—SuperFetch and ReadyBoost. https ...

For those using Windows Vista, you probably know that if you really push it, it can get pretty resource intensive, thankfully Microsoft was kind enough to implement a great technology into the OS ...