Pen Drive for Swifter Vista


Although Vista is designed to run only on reasonably fast PC’s, anything that can make it go even quicker has to be welcome. A feature called Windows ReadyBoost makes use USB 2.0 memory cards, pen drives and so on as a secondary cache. A cache is memory used to temporarily store data and normally Windows uses a chunk of hard disc space, but this is relatively slow, compared with solid-state memory, hence the small but useful boost in performance when using the memory card as a cache. To use it all you have to do is plug in the card or drive (512Mb or more) and on the AutoPlay dialogue box that appears select ‘Speed Up My System’ and follow the prompts

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