This is for Nerds and people with slow Notebooks using Windows XP only. Microsoft introduced with Windows Vista some nifty new caching technology to speed up the launch of applications and the operating system by using an USB stick as an accelerator. Windows XP users didn’t get the boost.

eBoostr (which is $29 or €19) offers the same boost (in combination with a FAST USB stick with at least 1 GByte of free space). I tried it and bought it for my older Fujitsu-Siemens notebook. Especially on notebooks with slower drives and little RAM eBoostr really makes a difference. If you have a fast desktop computer or shiny new notebook with a speedy drive (7200 RPM) you won’t see much difference.