Control-Alt- Break switches into Full Screen Mode. The break key on a laptop may not be labelled such, and delete with or without a function key complement may be required.
From Azure Autoscaling to Next Gen Desktop Development not Forgetting Firmware on the Way
Friday, 6 October 2023
Windows Sandbox - Triumph of Virtualization
Windows Sandbox allows you to run applications in isolation. Software in the sandbox runs separately from the host machine.
Sunday, 16 July 2023
Volume Shadow Copy Service Eating Disk
The Volume Shadow Copy Service is effectively a backup and restore service. It was introduced way back when in Windows Server 2003. Shadow copy is another term for Snapshot or Point-in-time copy, or Point-in-time Snapshot. There is a bunch of terms used in the context of the VSS. These include:
- The VSS Service - part of the Windows operating system that enables all parties in the shadow copy workflow to communicate.
- The VSS Requestor - actually requests the creation of the shadow copy (or operations thereon e.g. importing or deleting shadow copies).
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