Windows

Before convincing yourself that an OS reinstallation is necessary, it may be worth to try to just create another user account, then move your data from the old account to the new account.

To delete all shadow copies on a system using the WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line) tool, you can use the following command:

wmic shadowcopy delete

Welcome to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon

ntfs.com has a nice section about Windows Storage Spaces at https://www.ntfs.com/wss-intro.htm

Enjoy!

Meet TntDrive! I mounted a Storj bucket as a local drive and I'm pretty happy with it.

In an admin command prompt

Best I've tried so far is CrystalDiskInfo.

Each OS is installed with their default set of apps on a 50GB virtual HDD, with their default partitioning style for UEFI. Installed xRDP on Linux and its pulseaudio module.

Today I ran a test of memory requirements of different operating systems in virtual machines.

Windows DC disables disk write caching at every boot. To prevent it from doing this, do the following:

Path: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters