About File Management
The following topics contain more information about file management.
In this section
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Tables that list functionality and feature support comparisons for the four main Windows file systems, NTFS, exFAT, UDF, and FAT32. | |
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A file is a unit of data in the file system that a user can access and manage. | |
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Functions to use to create, delete, and maintain files. | |
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Functions to use to get and set file information. | |
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An application reads from and writes to a file by using the ReadFile, ReadFileEx, WriteFile, and WriteFileEx functions. | |
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There are two types of links supported in the NTFS file system: hard links and junctions. | |
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A block clone operation instructs the file system to copy a range of file bytes on behalf of an application. | |
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The NTFS file system uses Lempel-Ziv compression, which is a lossless compression algorithm. | |
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The Encrypted File System (EFS) provides cryptographic protection of individual files on NTFS file system volumes by using a public-key system. | |
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Because files are securable objects, access to them is regulated by the access-control model that governs access to all other securable objects in Windows. | |
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Windows provides the ability to perform input and output (I/O) operations on storage components located on local and remote computers. | |
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File compression of files that contain mostly zeros makes efficient use of disk space. | |
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A symbolic link is a file-system object that points to another file system object. The object being pointed to is called the target. |