document updated 15 years ago, on Feb 17, 2009

user rights model — Sort of like Linux's. You have to take some time to understand the underlying model, and sometimes have to do extra work to make it do what you want. But while normal geeks can handle this (possibly even prefer it), it's odd that Microsoft forced regular users to do all this extra work.
- You especially want to run cmd.exe as admin, since DOS-based apps usually don't pop up UAC dialogs, they just fail. Search for "command prompt", right click, choose "Run as Administrator". But it can be done in 6 keystrokes too.
  - it may also be useful to use the elevate script (to install, unzip, and run the "InstallAllPowerToys.cmd" script)
copying/deleting even one file is very slow — LOTS of issues
- [local] make sure you're using SP1, it tries to unfuck the "copy engine" (another term for "we took something that should be simple, and made it way more complicated, under the guise of making it faster, but ended up making it slower")
- [network] turning differential compression off only helps a small bit
- [network] disable NetworkThrottlingIndex (google more on the Multimedia Class Scheduler service)
Start > Power only puts the computer into "hybrid sleep".
- long sordid FAQ
- use powercfg to enable hibernation
reparse points are used to provide backwards compatibility with My Documents folders
- reparse points were the reason why one Slashdot story poster got DEEPLY confused about what was happening on his machine