gHacks technology news » readyboost vista http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Readyboost Monitor http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/13/readyboost-monitor/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/13/readyboost-monitor/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:58:29 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10520 Windows Readyboost was a new feature that Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista. Readyboost basically allows a user to add flash memory to a computer system running Windows Vista to increase the performance of the system. These flash memory devices act then as additional memory cache. It should be obvious that they do not come near the performance of computer memory modules. In fact, tests have shown that Readyboost has barely any impact on performance. What it does have an impact on however is on responsiveness of resource heavy applications which might be enough to convince some users to give it a try.

The portable software Readyboost Monitor will monitor the Readyboost performance of a computer system. The main interface of the application will display information about the read and write speed, total read and write data and cached data. It will also display an activity bar that displays the Readyboost usage over time.

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The minimized application will display an icon in the Windows system tray that displays the read and write speed when hoovered on. Readyboost Monitor has a size of only 56 Kilobytes. The program requires Microsoft Windows Vista and the Microsoft .net Framework 3.0.

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