.NET Thoughts and Ideas

I was syncing some data between my main machine Server 2003 x64 and Windows 7 x64 on my laptop using SyncBackSE. After the sync finished the log displayed plenty of errors. I checked Windows 7 event log – quite a few errors

“The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.”

SyncBackSE, the program I use, was just copying my Dev directory to Win 7 laptop, yet Win 7 seemed to be “choking”.

A quick search brought me to a good post describing that Win 7 “needs to be told that it can act as a server” by changing a Registry setting.

http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/03/windows-7-nonpaged-pool-srv-error-2017

I think the author was too nice Win 7 acts as a server out of the box, after all it allows you to share its resources. Perhaps in the pursuit for more “efficient” OS, the OS vendor decided to reduce the amount of resources allocated to “real needs” in favour of allocating them to “fancy things” like “aero desktop” and some media features?