Has anyone tried Eboostr to improve performance?

[Kopitar]

Here's my opinion of REadyboost (The eBooster is just readyboost from Vista for XP)...

I work for a mid sized company and have a lot of resources at my disposal... I've plugged 15 different flash devices/memory devices/removable drives/etc into my Vista machine, and each one asks me to improve my windows performance, I tell it to do it, and each one then tells me that the device doesn't meet the standard to improve my performance. Each of these flash devices is from a different manufacturer ranging from 1gb to 4gb and all are USB2.0 on USB2.0 compliant hardware...

So... I've not found a thumb drive that works for this yet, and I've got a fair bit of resources available...

I had some initial problems with getting this to work, but i was using kind of older usb memory sticks, went out and got 1 that was certified for vista boost and it worked no problem, i have not noticed much of a performance boost though.

[aetherg]

The Nagle algorithm is a networking thing. Basically, WoW used to save up packets of data up to a certain amount, then transmit them all at once. This uses less bandwidth, since the data can be compressed better, and there's less wasted space to begin with. However, it takes longer for that first packet to reach the server, because it's waiting for more to gather up before WoW decides it's time to send them all. Disabling the Nagle algorithm means it always sends stuff right away, which increases the bandwidth used by the game, but reduces latency.

The WMP trick is different; it deals with CPU scheduling and how much time Windows spends running WoW. It did actually work, but as far as I know it doesn't matter anymore.