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A library of C++ functions provided by Microsoft that allows developers to more easily work with Windows operating systems.
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Microsoft Foundation Class - In article ,Phil Earnhardt wrote: As with the earlier article on this topic, nobody asked Kinkos why they weren't scrubbing their disks between user logins. Does anyone have an estimate how long it would take to re-load an image? Remember, Kinkos has a pretty heavy load of licensed software on their machines.Rough approximations are not hard to do.The 'occupied' space on a 'clean', but loaded, machine is going to bein the range of a few gigabytes, to a few tens of gigabytes.Sustained disk-to-disk transfer rates are roughly 10 megabytes persecond.So, you're looking at 'complete reload' times of a few hundred secondsto maybe a couple of thousand seconds. A few minutes, to more than ahalf-hour.With careful software installation, *and* good hardware, one canreduce the time considerably -- It is often possible to put a _lot_ ofthe application stuff on a secondary drive, one that is *read*only*,at the _hardware_ level. Oddly enough, -that- content does not needto be re-imaged.Windows _does_ insist on having *bunches* of stuff in writabledirectories and/or writable media, because it wants 'everything in thesame place', so one really has to _work_ at this kind of a set-up.Really working at it, and using hibernate/resume type tricks, I expectone could get a 'wipeout/restart' down to _well_under_ 2 minutes.
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