How to boot a Vista system from a locally stored WIM file How to boot a Vista system from a locally stored WIM file Windows 7 Data Corruption No fix for data corruption bug in Windows Home Server Symantec tool cleans up Windows XP SP3 registry corruption Restore and Reset File Association in Windows Vista Adapt the Windows 7 Hibernation File to the Memory Contents Loaded Digital File Check
Vista-Windows Mobile 6.0 file-sync fix due in mid-June Free file hosting service How to create .ISO from .VHD file Service Offers File Sharing Over Gmail File-Sharing Winners and Losers of 2005 How to Share Large File on The Web Using MegaUploadOne of the most advantage of using MegaUpload, compare with other similar service, is the duration how long your file(s) will be kept in their server. Your uploaded files will be deleted only after it become unused for 30 days. So, if many of your friends download it, over and over again, the files will always be there. The size is quite big, up to 250MB. Not as big as YouSendIt which allow up to 1GB file size, but it's more than enough to share your music files, movies, etc.
common - comments - 7.3.2006
Choosing multiple files and folders has been possible in Windows for as long as I can remember. Hold the CTRL key and choose the files and/or folders. Pretty simple, but there has to be an easier way right? What's New in Vista - File Select Check Box
windows - comments - 1.6.2006
Someone clever figured out a way to transfer any type of file onto the Microsoft Zune portable media player, after which the files can be wirelessly traded to other Zune users. Zune Hack: Trade Any File, Quick
microsoft - comments - 25.11.2006
Trying to mix prior versions of Microsoft's suite with the new Open XML default will leave workers bemused and befuddled, analysts predict. Deploy Office 2007 file converters now
microsoft - comments - 6.2.2007
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception. Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
windows - comments - 27.5.2008
A strange virus which taunts file-sharers and threatens to report them to the police and even kill them, is being distributed on the Winny network.
Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers
common - comments - 2.3.2007
Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 add the ability for an OS to be installed onto a virtual hard disk (VHD) file to boot physical hardware. To do this, perform the following steps. How can I install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to a virtual hard disk (VHD) file?
windows - comments - 17.2.2009
Norway's best known IT export, DVD Jon, has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player, opening up content broadcast for the multimedia player to alternative devices on multiple platforms. DVD Jon hacks Media Player file encryption
common - comments -
A fix is now available for the bug that frustrates some users with extra-long wait times to move, copy or delete files. Vista Bug Turns File Copying into Drawn-out Affair
windows - comments - 29.3.2007
With the advent of Windows Vista, Microsoft also introduced the Windows Imaging (WIM) file format. According to the Redmodn company, the Windows Imaging format is designed as a file-based disk image specific to Vista, and is an alternative to sector-based image formats because of a range of benefits. Windows Vista - Windows Imaging File Format
microsoft - comments - 17.10.2007
CorelDraw .CDR files are one of the formats that have been blocked. Microsoft is facing criticism from a competitor and some customers for its decision to block some older file formats with Office 2003 Service Pack 3, which it released last September Microsoft Takes Heat for Office 2003 SP3 File Format Blocking
microsoft - comments - 4.1.2008
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are "aligned" operating systems despite the client and server side separation. In this context, the first service pack for Windows Vista, directly dependent of Windows Server 2008, will feature evolution in various aspects, as generated by the development of Microsoft's last 32-bit server operating system. Vista SP1's File Sharing Subsystem to "Benefit" from Thousands of Inbound Concurrent Connections
windows - comments - 13.12.2007
Commerce Server 2009 (formerly known as Commerce Server 2007 code name “Mojave”) delivers the ability to increase your business reach by making it possible to sell via multiple channels using an out-of-the-box shopping site, SharePoint Commerce Services, and the Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation. Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 - Release Candidate - DVD ISO Image File
download - comments - 16.1.2009
zapp2 report this next Windows Vista Stop Time Crack and Vista Genuine file NEW CRACK in our forum. This is first Vista WGA crack. Windows Vista Stop Time Crack + Genuine file NEW CRACK
download - comments - 12.2.2007
Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server (Windows Server 2008 R2) are due to come, bringing to the table enhancements designed to increase the security of Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructures. Windows 7 Domain Name System
windows - comments - 12.11.2008
When Microsoft released the official beta for Windows 7 a while back, it also published a set of system requirements. These were a general overview, and it seems that they have been updated to match the Windows 7 RC recently made available. Windows 7 system requirements
windows - comments - 3.5.2009
Many folks have commented and written email about the topic of performance of Windows. The dialog has been wide ranging—folks consistently want performance to improve (of course). Windows 7 -- Approach to System Performance
windows - comments - 28.8.2008File Corruption in Outlook
Express
Tom Koch talks about e-mail
file corruption, the causes,
and how to avoid it...
WindowsXP/expertzone - 04.01.2006No fix for data corruption bug in Windows Home Server
Two months after acknowledging a serious data corruption bug exists in Windows Home Server, Microsoft has admitted it still has no fix. The latest
update to its knowledgebase entry essentially says, "still workin' on
it". The bug relates to a little known, but frequently used, method of writing hidden data to NTFS file systems, which is incompatible with the
disk pooling strategy used in Home Server.
The software giant first acknowledged the problem on December 21 last year, providing a list of
programs that could cause data on a Windows Home Server to become corrupted, including Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery,
OneNote 2007, OneNote 2003, Outlook 2007, Money 2007, SyncToy 2.0 beta, QuickBooks and uTorrent.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 27.02.2008Microsoft addresses data corruption with WHS Power Pack beta
Microsoft has released a public beta of the first Windows Home Server update in order to show the world it has finally fixed an embarrassing data
corruption bug it discovered six months ago and has been trying to correct since...
betanews.com - 11.06.2008Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Gets a 200% Boost with Datalight Software
Datalight, Inc. today
announced support for the
Microsoft Windows Embedded CE
6.0 platform within its
patented data management
software. Datalight Reliance
and FlashFX Pro can double
performance on Windows
Embedded CE 6.0 when
implemented together.
As embedded device
memory requirements grow more
complex, the case for
professional data management
software becomes more
compelling. Datalight FlashFX
Pro is a flash media manager
that offers drop-in support
for over 200 different flash
parts. Reliance is a file
system that gives developers
control over performance
without risking data
corruption. When used
together, Reliance and FlashFX
Pro create a seamless flash
file system that vastly
outperforms native and "home
grown" solutions, with
performance increases for some
operations of over 200%.
FlashFX Pro
is ideally suited for projects
where performance cannot be
sacrificed. Test results have
shown that when using FlashFX
Pro in a Windows Embedded CE
6.0 environment, write
performance on NAND flash can
be increased by more than
200%, while read performance
improves by at least 20%...
winbeta.org - 08.08.2007Microsoft narrows scope of Home Server bug
Microsoft Corp. product managers Friday claimed that a data corruption bug in Windows Home Server crops up only when the system is under an "extreme
load," but also defended their decision to sound a general alarm before they had completed their investigation.
The news that
Windows Home Server (WHS) could corrupt files raised a storm of criticism from customers and observers alike.
"The problem
isn't one hundred percent reproducible, and depends on quite a few different factors," explained Todd Headrick, the product planning manager on the
Windows Home Server (WHS) team. "Home Server has to be under an extreme load while doing a large file copy," he said, adding that the flaw comes
into play only in instances when the file server's cache is full and the user is editing a file previously saved to a shared folder.
winbeta.org - 30.12.2007Microsoft promises data corruption fix in final Home Server Power Pack
7 months of beta testing later, Microsoft is finally ready to say it has squashed the data corruption bug that has plagued Windows Home Server since
its launch last year, releasing the final build of Power Pack 1 to existing customers and OEMs...
betanews.com - 22.07.2008Warning: Windows 7 beta could corrupt your MP3s
Several reports from users using the latest leaked build of Windows 7 indicate a potential data corruption issue using Microsoft's Windows Media
Player 12. Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 leaked over the Christmas holidays and a Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed that there is a bug which
affects the leaked build. Approximately 2-3 seconds will get shaved off the beginning of MP3s if you have set your Windows Media Player 12 settings to
retrieve information from the internet and update files. The default configuration for WMP12 sets this if you use the "express" option during setup.
"The problem only happens when you edit metadata on a certain class of MP3 file (a file with a header larger than 16KB).
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neowin.net - 05.01.2009IBM Shows Off Continuous Data Backup
IBM on Friday announced that it had developed new technology that will protect information stored on laptops and servers from viruses, file corruption or deletion. The software would make it unnecessary to schedule backups, as the process occurs continuously in the background...
betanews.com - 27.08.2005Apple Says No Sun File System For Leopard
An Apple official on Monday
said Sun Microsystems'
open-source file system would
not be in the next version of
the Mac operating system,
contradicting statements made
last week by Sun's chief
executive.
During an
interview with
InformationWeek, Brian Croll,
senior director of product
marketing for the Mac OS,
said, "ZFS is not
happening," when asked
whether Sun's Zettabyte File
System would be in Leopard.
Instead, Leopard would use
Apple's current hierarchical
file system, called HFS+. The
Apple file system was first
introduced in 1998 in Mac OS
8.0.
Leopard is
Apple's sixth iteration of
its Mac OSX operating system
and is expected to ship in
October of this year. Apple
CEO Steve Job highlighted its
near completion at the
company's World Wide
Developers Conference in San
Francisco on Monday. ..
winbeta.org - 12.06.2007Microsoft begins test of new
Windows file system
Microsoft on Monday
posted the first test version
of a new Windows file
system.
Th
e company made the test
version the file system,
called WinFS, available to
subscribers to its Microsoft
Developer Network
service.
The
software was originally
intended as a key feature of
Windows Vista--developed under
the code name Longhorn--the
next release of the operating
system expected somtime next
year.
However,
roughly one year ago,
Microsoft announced that it
was removing WinFS from Vista
and would release it
separately in order to meet
its delivery schedule for
Longhorn.
Microsoft
says WinFS will make it easier
to find information stored on
both local PCs and across
networks.
"WinFS
bridges the gap between file
systems and databases and
provides a unified, rich
programming platform for all
data: structured,
semi-structured, and
unstructured," according to
information posted to MSDN on
Monday...
winbeta.org - 06.09.2005Oracle contributes Linux code for detecting 'silent data corruption'
Oracle today announced that it has contributed code to the Linux kernel aimed at alerting IT administrators to "silent data corruption" that
might interfere with the accuracy of database queries, turning up wrong answers...
betanews.com - 03.12.2008WinFS Examples in Action at
PDC
Although WinFS won't ship
until after Windows Vista hits
store shelves, the new file
system is garnering the
attention of PDC 2005
attendees who want to see the
capabilities that a relational
file system will bring.
Microsoft on Wednesday showed
off a few examples of WinFS in
action...
betanews.com - 15.09.2005Microsoft Releases Storage
Server R2
Microsoft on Tuesday made
available through OEMs Windows
Storage Server 2003 R2, a
special version of the
company's operating system
optimized for file and print
servers that comes with the
Microsoft Distributed File
System. The new release brings
64-bit support and other
advanced management features
that shipped in Windows Server
2003 R2...
betanews.com - 05.04.2006From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems
Computer platform advocacy can bubble up in the strangest places. In a recent interview at a
conference in Australia, Linux creator Linus Torvalds got the Macintosh community in an uproar when he described Mac OS X's file system as "complete
and utter crap, which is scary."
What did he mean? What is a "file system" anyway, and why would we care why one is better
than another? At first glance, it might seem that file systems are boring technical widgetry that would never impact our lives directly, but in fact,
the humble file system has a huge influence on how we use and interact with computers.
This article will start off by
defining what a file system is and what it does. Then we'll take a look back at the history of how various file systems evolved and why new ones were
introduced. Finally we'll take a brief glance into our temporal vortex and see how file systems might change in the future. We'll start by looking
at the file systems of the path, then we'll look at file systems used by individual operating systems before looking at what they future may hold.
winbeta.org - 17.03.2008Using System File Checker (SFC) To Fix Issues
Both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include the System File Checker (SFC) tool. Previous operating systems included this tool also. This
discussion is specific to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. If you would like more information on previous operating systems see the following KB
article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310747.
SFC
scans and checks all Windows Resource Protected (WRP) resources. Windows Vista adds the following new functionality to the SFC tool:
· Ability to scan a single file
· Ability to scan a Windows installation offline
winbeta.org - 18.12.2007IBM Builds Super Fast File
System
IBM on Thursday announced that
it had scored a breakthrough
in file system technology that
increases the speed of data
access by seven times.
Researchers were able to
attain a 102-gigabyte per
second transfer rate on the
ASC Purple supercomputer at
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory in a recent test...
betanews.com - 10.03.2006Microsoft releases minor WMC fix for Windows 7
After fixing the MP3
corruption issue in the Windows 7 beta and sending it out via Automatic
Updates, Microsoft has released another fix specifically for the Windows Media Center in the beta. The fix is currently only available via the
Microsoft Download Center in 32-bit (425
KB ) and 64-bit (411 KB ) flavors. It
hasn't been sent out via Windows Update because it is only meant for users experiencing a specific problem described in KB Article 962236...
winbeta.org - 02.02.2009Sun Advances File-Sharing With Windows
File-sharing between Windows and Sun's OpenSolaris Unix platform is being bolstered through two projects at Sun.
The OpenSolaris
project: CIFS Server features server software source code that implements the CIFS (Common Internet File System) protocol also known as Server Message
Block (SMB ), the standard for Windows file-sharing services, Sun said. The internal CIFS server enables Microsoft users to store and retrieve files
on an OpenSolaris system, Sun said. This project and a related effort, CIFS client, improve the usefulness of OpenSolaris in data environments that
serve NFS and CIFS clients, Sun said.
Sun recently donated server source code that implements CIFS to the OpenSolaris Project.
Windows interoperability requires that a CIFS server convince a Windows client or server that it is Windows, according to Sun.
Thusly, the operating system needs to support those services at a fundamental level.
winbeta.org - 20.11.2007IBM Opens GPFS File System to
Linux
IBM on Tuesday is expected to
announce a new software
strategy that will allow
supercomputing customers to
leverage the power of the
General Parallel File System
(GPFS) across a mixed-vendor
computer cluster for the first
time. GPFS supports files of
several tens of terabytes...
betanews.com - 14.12.2005IBM upgrades brain-bending file system
IBM on Friday is releasing a new version of its General Parallel File System (GPFS) for serious data crunchers.
The update, now
version 3.2, features improvements to GPFS's policy-based file management system and offers speedier searches.
GPFS caters to
hardcore users trying to run a file system across numerous systems. It provides shared access to the files regardless of what box in particular they
are sitting on. IBM says GPFS can support access speeds of 130+GB/sec to a single file on a 2PB file system.
The update includes
a revamped version of the existing, built-in policy manager that should make tweaking rules for storing and shifting data easier on customers. This
type of technology comes in handy when tiering data across systems that have billions of files to manage, said Todd Neville, IBM development offering
manager.
winbeta.org - 03.10.2007