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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the many benefits touted in Windows Vista is ReadyBoost, a new feature that allows the OS to use flash drives as pseudo-RAM in order to increase performance. However, in order for this to work, ...

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 ...

We've all heard of ReadyBoost and how it can improve performance of Windows Vista. The problem is that it requires you to plug in a flash drive to one of your free ...

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 ...