CrendKing

Point me out if I understand you incorrectly. Since the files under System32 and the files under WinSxS are hard links, and based on the definition of hard link, once the WinSxS files change, the System32 files change automatically, since they are pointing to the same data block. Therefore you will never get an updated file in System32 while still have the original one in WinSxS. I'm not Microsoft people. In my opinion, WinSxS is what they use to do package and version controls, as well as some level of backup. As the softwares are becoming bigger and bigger, we need multiple library files to collaborate with each other, and we need to make sure they always have the compatible version. Without WinSxS, the system cannot have two "msvcp.dll" files with different versions in System32. Rather, they have to name them msvcp80.dll and msvcp90.dll respectively, which is not scalable solution. I mean, WinSxS is not a bad solution, and it does not take extra space. I do not know how bad does Vista support hard links (since I never had problem with it), but removing dupe in WinSxS is not always good. Use it when you are sure you will not need those files.

As far as I know, all the component files in WinSxS are hard links to the files in other directories, i.e. different file entry in the file system but pointing to the same data blocks. If you just remove one entry (the ones under the WinSxS directory), the actual data are not erased, and you should not get any extra free space. How do you manage to get the cut off? Thanks! You can view the hard links in your file system by installing Link Shell Extension. Here's Wikipedia page about hard link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link

Thanks very much! For the gpedit, what I want is a full-text search, not requirement filter. For example, I want to set something about driver signing options, it should find out User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Driver installation. The "Export List" function is useless since non-recursive. A workaround is to search under C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions directory. Thanks again!

I want the underline shortcuts of the menu items are always shown without pressing ALT first. I checked up Google and they say I need the Control Panel -> Ease of Access. However, I have trimmed the Ease of Access with vLite. I think there must be some equivalent registry entry or group policy achieve the same thing. Does anyone know? Thanks! P.S. Is there a way to search certain policy in gpedit.msc in Vista? If not, gpedit.msc should be blamed at this, since there are hundreds of entries.