What's Readyboost For Vista:

[Guest Reimar]

eBoost a new software for to enlargen your memory in Windows XP.

eBoostr™ allows you to use an additional drive (flash memory or hard disk) as another layer of performance-boosting cache for your Windows XP®. There is no need to purchase a Vista upgrade to get the benefits of the Vista’s ReadyBoost® technology. With the newly developed eBoostr™, the booting of your OS and applications startup get much faster thanks to the smart caching mechanism.

No Costly Hardware Upgrades

No costly hardware upgradeeBoostr offers such an easy and relatively cheap solution to the problem of insufficient RAM, that you will have absolutely no need to buy additional memory.

Extremely Easy Way

All you need to boost your computer performance: is plug in a flash drive, choose it as a device to speed up your computer and set the amount of the memory space to be used.

Better Results on Favorite Apps

The product shows the best results for frequently used applications and data, which becomes a great feature for people who are regularly using office programs, graphics applications or developer tools.

Laptops Gain More

More applications are able to run without accessing the slow hard drive. This will surely attract a special attention of laptop owners as laptop upgrade is usually more complicated and laptop hard drives are almost always considerably slower than those of desktops.

* Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP® machine;

* Smart caches frequently used applications and files for maximum performance speed up;

* Supports both USB and non-USB removable media devices, as well as additional hard disks;

* Allows up to 4 devices for simultaneous smart caching;

* Compatible with all ReadyBoost® ready devices.

Introductory Special Offer - Save 10%

USD 26.10

EUR 17.10

GBP 13.50

The Trialversion can be downloaded or to buy the software at: http://www.eboostr.com/

[RKASA]

I can see what it does, but don't they already use man page I think it was called.  Vertual memory you can set it or auto adjusts its size to needed.  Something like the swap file in linux.  I have used that in a flash drive with livecd to boost ram.  Is that kind of the same thing?

[phazey]

My only comment is that i just bought 2GB of ram (2 x 1GB sticks) for $50 a piece (DDR2 667 laptop jobbies)

[nikster]

WinXP has a hard time making use of the 2GB RAM I have. It's using 1.3 or 1.4 GB max... and the HD cache which it is using the rest for is pitiful. Improving that would go a long way towards making XP faster.

As in Vista, getting more RAM makes way more sense than getting a flash drive to use for caching. Also the flash drive will have to be extremely fast in order to provide any benefit at all.

[cdnvic]

It does speed certain things up considerably though. You just shouldn't think of is as slower RAM, more as a faster swap file.