When ever we turn pages of a book written on Microsoft Windows operating system or we read through web sites explaining the same we always get to hear these terms.. Processes.. Threads ? Let me start with a question.. Can processes RUN ? My view is, it cant. Lets look at the defenition for the [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2009
WINSXS directory in Windows Vista: What is it and why is it so large?
Of the many blogs that I read daily, the Core Team Blog really interests me. The below article on WinSxS is explains a lot about vista changes. You may read full the article @ http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx Effort is to capture some core points : Vista is no more an INF described OS. It uses componentization. A component [...]
What are the differences between Windows Updates, Automatic Updates, and Microsoft Updates?
I always get confused with Windows update, Microsoft update and Automatic Update. Today we ( Rejin, Vipin and I ) had a small debate on this.. It helped.. It helped to add to confusion.. I googled on it for some time and landed on this document. Even though not so elaborate, the following MS article expains [...]