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Visual C++ 2010 fails to embed manifest on FAT32

Today I tried to figure out why one of my Visual Studio Projects failed to embed a Manifest. I had Generate Manifest and Embed Manifest enabled under Linker / Manifest tool, but manifest was not embedded. Long story short, after 2 hours of configuring, rebuilding, creating, deleting, I had the following state: – Move project …

Encrypt Windows swap file

Beginning from Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 it is possible to encrypt Windows paging file. Paging file can contain your credentials, passwords, session data, temporary data from database, etc. To check if encryption is enabled use the following command in cmd window: fsutil behavior query encryptpagingfile To enable encryption: fsutil behavior set encryptpagingfile 1 …