Chapter 15. Joining, Compressing, and Encrypting DisksFiles and folders, as you've probably noticed, have a tendency to multiply. Creating new documents, installing new software, and downloading new files can fill up even the largest disk drives in no timeespecially if, as Microsoft fervently hopes, you get heavily into music, pictures, and video. Fortunately, Windows XP Professional offers a number of ways to expand the amount of space on your drives: schemes called dynamic disks and disk compression.For many people, security is another concern. Files on your drives may contain confidential financial data for your company, top-secret government research, orworsethe holiday gift list for your family. Windows XP Professional has a solution for this problem too, called the Encrypting File System (EFS).You can skip this entire chapter, if you wish, and get along quite well without using any of these features. They're strictly optional. But if you aspire to wear the Power User T-shirt, read on.Appendix A. |
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