WinRAR flaw let crafted archives drop files outside target folder, including into Windows Startup New version 7.12 addresses ...

On the first day after your vacation, you sit down at your PC, type in the password — and fail. Windows says: “The password is incorrect. Please repeat the process” and expects you to click “OK.” ...

This layer deals with (nearly all) differences between DOS, Windows 9x, Windows NT and Linux/UNIX concerning direct hard disk access and tries to hide them from the higher layers (more about that soon ...

NTFS, the Windows NT family of file systems, was very advanced for its time, supporting 64-bit addressing, ... Former Google and current Microsoft software engineer Giulio Merino has put together ...

Windows NT's utility for managing policies is the System Policy Editor (Poledit.exe). System Policy Editor is a graphical tool included with Windows NT 4.0 Server, but you can also install it on ...

Create a new file system that replaces FAT, FAT32 (an acronym for File Allocation Table) and even the newer NTFS (the Windows NT file system), the most modern ways of storing data in Windows.To ...

Windows 8 will run on a newly engineered file system that Microsoft said will work with a new generation of storage technologies and offer "extreme" scalability. Microsoft disclosed plans for the ...

This process and its reversal is done at a layer below the NT file system (NTFS). The component is available in Professional and above editions of Microsoft's operating system starting Windows 2000.

Well, technically Windows 9x has a WIN386 swap file, while Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 use a PAGEFILE file. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews ...

Developed as the eventual successor to the long-standing NTFS (New Technology File System), first introduced with Windows NT 3.1 in July 1993, Microsoft's new Resilient File System (ReFS for short ...