Windows Vista gets a risky new feature: System wide "undelete".

zekrahminator · Aug 1, 2006

The most recent beta of Windows Vista shows that the "Volume Shadow Copy" service is enabled and set to run by default. This old feature that came with Windows Server 2003 and older versions of XP essentially backs up documents before modification. While this is good in the sense that you really can't lose old copies of files in Windows Vista, it is bad in the sense that your boss can catch you slacking off and deleting malware is a lot trickier then it usually would be. The feature is explained by Microsoft here, and can be disabled in the System Protection settings.

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oldschool · Aug 1, 2006

No problem really. No one with a clue would touch Vista so it's a non-issue. Vista is for the clueless.

zekrahminator · Aug 1, 2006

Or for those who want DX10, but those people will probably be smart enough to disable most of the Vista features and just enjoy the DX10 goodness

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creidiki · Aug 1, 2006

I might move to it to be able to use more than 2GB ram without resorting to the mess that is XP64... but I doubt it.

Canuto · Aug 1, 2006

Why don't we all move to linux?

zekrahminator · Aug 1, 2006

Because game makers don't exactly support linux

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xylomn · Aug 1, 2006

coz after finding out what a pain in the bottom it can be after being taught it at uni

however looking at vista doesn't seem so unappealing anymore lol

EDIT: and game makers don't support it as zekrahminator just said

Canuto · Aug 1, 2006

Gaming isn't everything you know but it's what pushes forward this industry.

xylomn · Aug 1, 2006

Yeah we know that. When I'm doing important WORK I'd rather be using linux or mac but even with this I still use windows because otherwise I wouldn't be able to play games, I'd rather take a slight hit in one area then lose the ability to perform an entire task in this case gaming.

Don't disregard windows entirely, the shear range of hardware it supports is far beyond that of linux and mac and (this is not including vista which we are yet to see the finished version) if set up and maintained correctly windows is a very solid operating system, its just more open when something goes wrong.

Alec§taar · Aug 1, 2006

It's a way for a functional "undelete", but what surprises me is?

Microsoft just "bought out" WinTernals!

(& their 'sister site' (of their freeware) in SysInternals has "Fundelete" which is a decent working undelete tool that does the job)

So that said... it surprises me they just haven't implemented undelete features using its codebase!

APK

Aegis · Aug 1, 2006

It gets worst than that. This "new" feature is really just an existing feature (Volume Shadow Copy) renamed, as are most of Vista's other "new" features.

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