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 ...

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 ...