Vista Squad

As you say interesting gain may just have to put that to the test, would be interesting to know the size of the drive used for this test. Might give it a go with 512mb ram and 2 gb USB stick.  Also the other facts re Vista are worthy of making note of, may help push Vista on the non-belivers.

Have a look at this little utility for monitoring your readyboost performance. http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/readyBoost-Monitor.shtml or if you are into sidebar gadgets like me try this one out. http://klinkby.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/readyboost-monitor-gadget/ Let us know how you get on.

Hey Scott  Not scared of the encryption of my data, but not wanting to see any dropped performance.  It does seem to make a difference when playing games though from my completely nonsense evidence of the usb stick's light flashing more. ;)

The information and data that is held on your readyboost device is encrypted and backed up to your main hard drive, so therefore it is safe to remove at any time. After stopping the device using the icon (safley remove hardware) located in the notification area of your taskbar. I have found the best gains are to be had on machines that are only ...

I'm sure at some stage I read somewhere that you have to leave the last 120MB of space free when using ReadyBoost but I'm unable to find the article now, I’ve also come across quite a few makes of USB 2.0 sticks that don’t work so here is some info you might like to know before you rush out and by some new ...