>>>>>Seems to me I should be able to get some information out of VISTA regarding the feature.
>>>>>I have a 4GB stick attached as all ReadyBoost and have no idea if it is effective or not.
>>>>>
>>>>>Anyone?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>Pull it out (use safely remove hardware) and see what happens. Vista will automatically adjust to not having it.
>>>
>>>Well the system has slowed down (as warned in MS documentation for SP1) so I guess it`s working s it should.
>>>But it peeves me that I can`t get some reporting about what it is actually doing for me.
>>
>>I've never considered looking for performance data on the readyboost cache. I'd bet you could look in performance monitor (perfmon.exe - I think it is still in Vista but I'm on an XP box for the moment) and find some performance counters that are related to it.
>
>Good idea, Bill. But I didn't see much there :(

try this..

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial136.html