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 [...]
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GFLAGS Overview
GFlags Overview GFlags (gflags.exe), the Global Flags Editor, enables and disables advanced internal system diagnostic and troubleshooting features. You can run GFlags from a Command Prompt window or use its graphical user interface dialog box. Use GFlags to activate the following features: Registry Set system-wide debugging features for all processes running on the computer. These [...]
Where ?
Forgot the command that you executed last week ? And now only thing you remember is the first one or two characters of the executable… Try this. Y:\>where not*C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exeC:\Windows\notepad.exeC:\Windows\NOTES-INSTALL.LOG To search for all files starting with "not" Note: The command is not available in Windows XP Version