Who ate my disk ????????????????????????????? It’s that folder which resides in C:\Windows and takes up a lot of space on your Windows Server 2008 machine and which didn’t used to do that in Windows Server 2003. What does it contain?, can we delete it?, can we move it to a different drive?, can we delete [...]
Archive for the ‘Operating Systems’ Tag
WINSXS 1 comment
Posted May 31, 2011 by Sreeraj Nair in IT Infrastructure
Tagged with Disk Space, Microsoft, Operating System, Operating Systems
The “SERVER” and “WORKSTATION” services Leave a comment
Why are they named so?? The file and printer sharing service in Windows is called the “SERVER” service but every other server service has a name which explains what it serves, like DNS Service or the DHCP service then why does the file and printer sharing service call itself as just SERVER as if it were an [...]
Posted August 8, 2010 by Sreeraj Nair in IT Infrastructure
Tagged with Microsoft, Operating Systems, Services
Hiding Folders with Access Based Enumeration (ABE) Leave a comment
Invisible Folders We have a heavily used Windows File Server which acts as the only way to share files within a department and with other departments in the corporate head office. The folders are all secure with NTFS permissions wherein every user is authorized to access the folders which he/she needs to but would be greeted with an “Access Denied” message [...]
Posted August 8, 2010 by Sreeraj Nair in IT Infrastructure
Tagged with ABE, File Server, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Shares
Windows 7 Supports RAID1 2 comments
Disk Mirroring for Desktops, umm interesting!! I just found out that Windows 7 Supports RAID 1 or Disk Mirroring as it’s commonly known as. It’s the first MS Client OS to support RAID1. For me it’s interesting to see RAID for desktops as untill recently it was something so niche that it was only available for [...]
Posted July 30, 2010 by Sreeraj Nair in IT Infrastructure
Tagged with Microsoft, Operating Systems, RAID, Redundancy, Windows 7
Windows 7 1 comment
On October 22 Microsoft will launch it’s next version of Windows, Windows 7 (Originally posted at my previous blog address on 07 September 2009) I have been running the RC (Release Candidate) version on my laptop since the day it was released and I’m delighted with it’s performance. If I had to give an opinion [...]
Posted February 2, 2010 by Sreeraj Nair in IT Infrastructure
Tagged with Desktop Security, Microsoft, Online Security, Operating Systems, Windows 7
