Did anyone tried to disable the "luafv" minifilter in Vista ?

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Hi all,

There’s a minifilter driver in Vista, called “luafv.sys” in Vista.
It is responsible for file virtualization, if this feature is enabled
in system policies.

Because I got serious problems with the OS when the virtualization
was enabled, I decided to turn it off in policy editor. However,
I noticed that even if the virtualization is off, the “luafv” driver
is still active for some volumes.

Did anyone tried to disable it completely ? Any problems with it ?
I disabled it and it seems to work fine.
(I mean set “4” into Start Type of appropriate registry key).

L.

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Ladislav:

I’ve also disabled it, and can only report that it has run for several
months without error. I haven’t looked at it more closely than that,
don’t really know much about it, and really only disabled it because I
disable more or less everything I possibly can on target machines.

mm

Ladislav Zezula wrote:

Hi all,

There’s a minifilter driver in Vista, called “luafv.sys” in Vista.
It is responsible for file virtualization, if this feature is enabled
in system policies.

Because I got serious problems with the OS when the virtualization
was enabled, I decided to turn it off in policy editor. However,
I noticed that even if the virtualization is off, the “luafv” driver
is still active for some volumes.

Did anyone tried to disable it completely ? Any problems with it ?
I disabled it and it seems to work fine.
(I mean set “4” into Start Type of appropriate registry key).

L.