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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you have you any external flash memory laying around? If so, you may be interested in ReadyBoost, which allows Windows to use suitably fast flash memory for OS caching purposes as detailed by ...

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 ...

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 ...