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| By default Windows systems support the SFN format so whenever a file is created using a long file name (LFN) Windows will create a unique SFN alias for the file. Therefore it should not matter where POPFile is installed. However on some systems this SFN support may have been disabled therefore the 0.22.2 (or later) installer checks for SFN support and will display a message like this if it has been disabled: | By default Windows systems support the SFN format so whenever a file is created using a long file name (LFN) Windows will create a unique SFN alias for the file. Therefore it should not matter where POPFile is installed. However on some systems this SFN support may have been disabled therefore the 0.22.2 (or later) installer checks for SFN support and will display a message like this if it has been disabled: | ||
| - | + | ^To install on the ' | |
| - | *//"To install on the ' | + | |
| There is a small overhead involved in generating these SFN aliases on NTFS-based systems but if there are folders containing a large number of files with similar names this overhead can become significant so many Windows tweaking/ | There is a small overhead involved in generating these SFN aliases on NTFS-based systems but if there are folders containing a large number of files with similar names this overhead can become significant so many Windows tweaking/ | ||
| Here is some information from Microsoft' | Here is some information from Microsoft' | ||
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| ===== Solutions | ===== Solutions | ||
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| You can disable SFN support again after upgrading POPFile (see ' | You can disable SFN support again after upgrading POPFile (see ' | ||
| - | ===== Enabling SFN support on Windows XP ===== | + | ===== Enabling SFN support on Windows XP or Vista ===== |
| - | If you are using Windows XP, you can use fsutil command to enable SFN support. | + | If you are using Windows XP or Vista, you can use the **fsutil** command to enable SFN support. |
| - | Open the Command Prompt, then type | + | Login as an administrator, |
| < | < | ||
| and push the enter key. | and push the enter key. | ||
| - | For more information about fsutil utility, see [[http://www.microsoft.com/ | + | For more information about the **fsutil** utility, see [[http://technet.microsoft.com/ |
| ===== Enabling SFN support on Windows 2000 ===== | ===== Enabling SFN support on Windows 2000 ===== | ||
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| - Open the Registry Editor (regedit). (From the Start button, select Run and type ' | - Open the Registry Editor (regedit). (From the Start button, select Run and type ' | ||
| - | - Locate the registry key // | + | - Locate the registry key //%%HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem%%//. |
| - Change the value of // | - Change the value of // | ||
| - Right click the // | - Right click the // | ||
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