Specifications

44 Glossary
Persistence mode
The mode in which Miray RAM Drive is in when 48.4 Persistence is activated.
Program window
A window of the program, from which the program’s functions can be controlled.
RAM drive
Designated virtual disk created in memory.
System tray
Area in the Windows taskbar (bottom right), displaying the icons for the pro-
grams running in the background and the date and time.
System service
A system service is a service that runs with elevated privileges (on the Windows
system account), so that it can access all files, processes, and other resources just
like the operating system itself.
Driver
A driver is program code that (under Windows) runs directly in the operating
system kernel. A driver handles the connection of hardware devices so that they
can be used in the operating system. The driver of Miray RAM Drive reserves the
desired amount of memory and interfaces it as a RAM drive in the operating sys-
tem. This way, the RAM drive behaves exactly like a physical drive, and can be
used as such by any program.
Virtual Store
Windows supports the Virtual Store concept, starting with Windows Vista. From
the user's perspective, a Virtual Store looks just like a folder in the file system. In
contrast to a pure access control, where the access is either allowed or prohib-
ited, read and write operations are monitored by the Windows Virtual Store and
automatically redirected to other folders. Examples are the 'Windows' and 'Pro-
gram files' folders: when a normal program attempts to write a file in one of
these folders, this file is automatically stored in a different directory, ensuring that
no program can directly alter or damage any of the installed programs. Attempts
to access C:\WINDOWS\ can be redirected, for example, to: C:\USER\% USER-
NAME%\APPDATA\LOCAL\VIRTUALSTORE\WINDOWS\ - or similar when access-
ing other system folders.