Good news – the tray icon now works for my EeePC 701 on Win XP SP3. On all previous versions it was mysteriously non functional.

In addition to the 512mb cache on the internal card reader’s Kingston 8GB SDHC (read speed 16-19mb/s) I’ve purchased a Sandisk Cruzer Micro U3 drive that is advertised as Vista ReadyBoost optimised, with a read speed of 25mb/s. Eboostr’s control panel reports the speeds quite faithfully with the U3 delivering no less than 23mb/s at any time. With 2 usb devices (and the faster U3 flash drive) I noticed a considerable decrease in boot time and XP startup programs processing.

Startup from zero-power to XP functional was in the region of 2 minutes before (thanks to having 2 antivirus programs), and now its just over a minute.