Encrypting the Pagefile
In high-secure environments the Windows system pagefile may pose a risk to confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data. Sensitive data may still reside in the system pagefile which can be exfiltrated by attackers with the help of specialized tools. In such high-security scenarios, one would need to take the proper measures to safeguard systems pagefiles.
Categories: Security, Tweaks Tags: data, encryption, fsutil, NtfsEncryptPagingFile, Pagefile, regedit, registry
Implementing Disk Quotas
Disk Quotas can be configured from the command line or through scripts using the Fsutil administrative command-line tool. In the previous article Disk Quotas we have seen how configure disk quotas using the GUI. Windows 7 rich feature set of command-line utilities include the quota functionality within Fsutil and can be used as follows:
Categories: Disks, Management Tags: command-line, disk quotas, fsutil, Group Policy, NTFS, quota, quota entries, quotas, removable media, track
Chkdsk Best Practices
Power failures and system crashes do happen and can corrupt both active and idle files and turn your system to an inconsistent state. Although, Windows 7 NTFS can roll back the uncommitted transactions and returns the file system to a consistent state, you might still need to scan the entire file system for errors.
Categories: Management Tags: bad cluster, bad sectors, cache, chkdsk, chkdsk.exe, dirty volume, fix-mode, fsutil, Performance, RAM, read-only, sectors, volume
