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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although it is easiest to add memory as you think Windows to run comfortably, it is also true that the hurdle for memory addition is high for beginners. Therefore, next Windows Vista is supposed to be ...