Some once-useful features in Windows have become obsolete due to hardware advancements. One of them is ReadyBoost — if you're still trying to use it in 2025, it could do more harm than good. Storage ...

There has been a lot of mixed feedback on Vista's ReadyBoost feature. Some say they have noticed significant performance boosts, some no seeing any real difference and others finding a drop in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few months ago, I bought two 240gb SSD drives, one each for my desktop and laptop. I installed the laptop right away and love it, but I've been procrastinating on my desktop (Windows 7 x64) because ...

Still scratching my head over this Readyboost gimmick. On paper, it sounds like a brilliant idea to cache the page file in flash memory for lighting fast random access seek times. But the devil is in ...

Vista's ReadyBoost feature, which theoretically improves performance by placing part of Vista's memory swapfile onto a highspeed flash drive, is one of the slickest OS tricks we've heard about in a ...