Local Drives; Drive Z; Drive C And Flash - HP t5630 - Thin Client Quick Reference Manual

NOTE: The Windows Time service is Stopped by default. You can Start the service via the
administrative tools control panel applet. You may want to Start the service and maintain correct time
because some applications may require access to the local thin client time. To open the Date and Time
Properties dialog, click on the time area in the task bar or double-click the Date and Time icon in the
Control Panel.

Local Drives

The following sections describe the local drives located on the thin client.

Drive Z

Drive Z is the onboard volatile memory (MS-RAMDRIVE) on the logic board of the thin client. Because
drive Z is volatile memory, HP recommends that you do not use this drive to save data that you want to
retain. For RAMDisk configuration instructions, see
using the Z drive for roaming profiles, see

Drive C and Flash

Drive C is in the onboard flash drive. HP recommends that you do not write to drive C, as writing to drive
C reduces the free space on the flash.
CAUTION:
becomes unstable.
A write filter is used by the thin client for security and to prevent excessive flash write activity. Changes
to the thin client configuration are lost when the thin client is restarted unless the write filter cache is
disabled or a -commit command is issued during the current boot session. See the write filter topics
in Enhanced Write Filter Manager on page 36
filter when you no longer want permanent changes.
10 Chapter 3 Configuration
If the available free space on the flash drive is reduced to below 10 MB, the thin client
HP RAMDisk on page
Roaming Profiles on page
for instructions to disable the cache. Enable the write
39. For information about
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