XP and Redirectors...

Hi all - as of RC2 of XP our file system redirector stopped working (hung
at the logon screen). Prior to RC2 it worked fine.

I’ve seen a couple of pieces of information lately that seem related. Can
anyone comment? I’m obviously interested in figuring out where to start
looking for the problem with our driver. It would be very helpful to know
if I should start with registry dependency specifications or in the
debugger.


It turns out that the RDR2 samples were updated during the Windows XP
development cycle, but were not ready when the Whistler Beta 2 IFS Kit
was release, therefore they were not included.

Was RDR2 broken and is it likely that other redirectors would also be
broken in a similiar fashion?


*WINDOWS XP PREFETCHING
Microsoft has focused Windows XP on improving the end-user experience, and
users consider a big part of the experience the speed at which a computer
turns on and is usable. Therefore, a Microsoft developers have spent a
great deal of effort on improving the performance of the boot process and
application startup. They’ve addressed this in several ways: the first is
that serial and networking device drivers initialize in parallel, unlike in
Windows 2000 where they initialize serially. Second, Winlogon no longer
waits for the workstation service (which itself waits on networking
services) to become available before presenting the logon dialog and
allowing a user to logon…

Thanks,
Kjell


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> Windows 2000 where they initialize serially. Second, Winlogon no longer

waits for the workstation service (which itself waits on networking
services) to become available before presenting the logon dialog and
allowing a user to logon…

At least the initial Ctrl-Alt-Del box was on the screen before networking
started, even in NT4.

Max


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