Chapter 4. File System Improvements

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Metadata and the Windows Explorer Property System

• Desktop Searching with the Windows Search Engine

• Grouping, Stacking, and Filtering with Metadata

• Search Folders

• Selecting Files with Check Boxes

• Dragging and Dropping Files

• Shadow Copies and Transactional NTFS

• XML Paper Specification (XPS)

Windows Vista was supposed to be the operating system that finally realized Microsoft’s long-sought dream of a major file system breakthrough. Windows Vista was supposed to include WinFS (Windows Future Storage), a file-storage subsystem that runs on NTFS. WinFS not only uses SQL Server–related technology to create sophisticated indexes of a wide variety of data—documents, images, email messages, ...

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