On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:55:50 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ Robin T Cox on Saturday 14 July 2007 18:59 : \____
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>> Vista keeps something called a shadow copy that backs up your work in the
>> unused space on the hard drive. It’s designed to prevent data loss; but
>> with it that data will stay on the computer—perhaps forever. Windows
>> systems have been replicating data similarly in recent releases, but Vista
>> makes it easier for forensic examiners to find deleted data.
>
> So this is why shadow copy is running even when the data cannot be recovered
> (Basic/Home Edition). This also explains why Vista is so slow. It
> is 'gathering some evidence' all the time. Deletion, which is amazingly slow,
> was blamed on DRM, but apparently it's something else altogether.
Oh please. These are simply consequences of having better access to
information. OS X will have the exact same side-effects with time-machine
and Spotlight. Linux has them as well, with Beagle and other tools, like
google desktop.
Slow deletion has never had anything to do with DRM, it's a UAC issue.
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