Several once-handy features in Windows have been rendered obsolete thanks to hardware advancements. One of these is ReadyBoost—if you're still trying to use it in 2025, you might be doing more ...

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 ...

To be used as a ReadyBoost device, your flash drive has to pass several tests, including available free space, write performance, and random read performance.

Under the Hood: Windows Vista ReadyBoost Report If you find your Windows Vista machine a little sluggish, it might need a little jolt of power from ReadyBoost.

Allchin didn't confirm if this aspect of ReadyBoost will actually make its way out into Vista proper, yet the potential is obviously there seeing as how ReadyBoost was originally intended to tap ...

How to Test if ReadyBoost Is Active. 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 ...

Do Windows Vista's ReadyBoost and SuperFetch features really improve performance?

Readyboost caches frequently used program files and is meant to speedup boot times and application launch times. In addition to using the drive for readyboost you can also put your pagefile and ...

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 ...

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 ...

We show you how to add or remove the ReadyBoost tab in Drive Properties in Windows 11/10, by editing the Windows Registry.