Windows 10 performance on older PCs can be cheaply and easily improved through the use of Windows' ReadyBoost feature and a spare USB flash drive or SD card. Windows 10 generally runs surprisingly ...

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 ...

OK, I've got a machine with a Phenom II x4 940 and 4GB of RAM. I've got an extra 4GB flash drive with a broken case, that I'm thinking I can devote to ReadyBoost. Is there any point to doing so? Will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1st June 2007 - With Windows® Vista becoming the technological talking point for 2007, most of us are aware that the minimum requirements of this new OS generation from Microsoft® are high. But what ...

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 ...

1st June 2007 - With Windows® Vista becoming the technological talking point for 2007, most of us are aware that the minimum requirements of this new OS generation from Microsoft® are high. But what ...

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 ...