win32_capture: make open by file ID opt-in

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@@ -10,10 +10,15 @@ Version 1.9.0-BETA:
        Significantly improved performance of directory scans of full NTFS
        volumes on Windows 8 and later.
 
+       On Windows, to improve capture performance, wimlib now sometimes opens
+       files by inode number rather than by path.  This is enabled for
+       wimcapture and wimappend, but for now other applications have to opt-in.
+
        The progress messages printed by wimlib-imagex while writing WIM files
        have been slightly tweaked.
 
        Progress information for directory tree scans now counts all hard links.
+       Also, on Windows "\\?\" is no longer stripped from the current path.
 
        Added a new '--image-property' option to 'wimcapture', 'wimappend', and
        'wiminfo'.  This option lets you assign values to elements in a WIM