Filtered articles: "Quota"

Filtered articles: "Quota"

New Web Content Actually Worth Reading (August 2009)

Why does Windows 7 feel faster than Vista, although really it is not? Improvements to the graphics driver model (WDDM got upgraded to version 1.1) certainly add to this feeling and reduce the memory footprint of the desktop windows manager (DWM) process. Microsoft describes the changes in its Graphics Guide for Windows 7.

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How to Reduce the Size of Roaming Profiles
Published by Helge Klein on 11/17/2008 | 4 Comments | 44,217 Views

Roaming user profiles tend to grow over time, which is sometimes referred to as profile bloat. In and by itself, profile growth is not a problem. Users of desktop PCs who log on the the same machine every day will not even notice that they have huge profiles ready to follow them around the network. Their locally cached copy of the roaming profile is always current. No need to fetch anything from a file server during logon.

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Dirquota - Automagically Manage File System Quotas
Published by Helge Klein on 10/24/2007 | 3 Comments | 7,980 Views

Did you know that Windows Server contains a file system quota component? "Of course", you will say. It was introduced with Windows 2000 and is completely useless since it only allows for volume-level quotas. That is true, but at the same time it is nowadays quite irrelevant. With the R2 update to Windows Server 2003 Microsoft finally got it right and introduced the optional component File Server Resource Manager (FSRM).

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