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 ...

Use ReadyBoost to improve performance with USB flash drives. With cheap memory and dual- and quad-core processors, only hard-disk speed limits the performance of many computers. Microsoft hopes to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...