Changing file and folder permissions under Windows is not a comfortable process. You need to click through various menus before you can make the modifications that you want to make. This may including changing ownership of a file or folder, or changing access permissions for a registered user or the system account. The free software [...]
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Format Drives Larger Than 32 Gigabyte To Fat32 In Windows
It is usually recommended to format hard drive to NTFS in Windows as the file system offers several advantages over its alternative, Fat32. Sometimes however you may need to format a drive to Fat32, for instance if you run another device or computer that can only read Fat32 disks and not NTFS disks. That’s not [...]
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How To Encrypt Files, Folders With EFS
The Encrypting File System (EFS) has been part of all professional versions of Windows since Windows 2000. The feature provides file level encryption for data stored on NTFS systems, and is directly linked to a specific user account on an operating system. Only the user who encrypted the files and folders will be able to [...]
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NTFSWalker, Explore And Recover Data On NTFS Partitions
NTFSWalker is a free tool for the Windows operating system that can be used to explore and recover data on NTFS partitions. The program can display data of connected partitions, or do the same for drive images if available. It displays a list of available partitions and drives on startup, and offers to load disk [...]
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Smart Compress, Scan Drives For NTFS Compressable Files
Yesterday we ran a guide on how to make use of the NTFS compression feature of the NTFS file system to save disk space on hard drives. We have established that it may make sense to use the compression on uncompressed files, but not on files that already make use of compression, or are required [...]
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Compress Folders, Files In Windows To Save Storage Space
File compression support is one of the features of the NTFS file system that often gets overlooked by Windows users. Its main purpose is to reduce the storage requirements of files on devices that use the NTFS file system. Compression is however handled different from archivers like 7-Zip, WinZip or WinRar, as the compressed files [...]
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Increase The FileSystem Memory Cache Size In Windows 7
File operations on Windows NT based systems make use of a limited pool of kernel buffers which. This may slow down or even bring to a halt file operations on Windows if the buffers are filled up so that they, for the the time being, cannot accept new file operations. The memory usage of the [...]
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Manage NTFS Compression With NTFS Ratio
The NTFS file system supports transparent data compression which combines the advantages of file compression without changing the visibility of the data on the computer system (data is not stored in an archive but in its original file structure on the hard drive). The option to compress files is hidden in the file and folder [...]
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Windows XP exFAT File System Driver
Microsoft has released an update for Windows XP SP2 and SP3 system that adds exFAT file system drivers to the operating system. The exFAT file system is the successor to the FAT32 file system which comes with several advantages but also a few disadvantages in comparison to both the FAT32 and NTFS system. It was [...]