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Agree on the 50-100MB being minuscule. I don't even provision a Windows VM without 60G worth of space due to how bad it is on cleaning itself up/bloat. I wasn'

Agree on the 50-100MB being minuscule. I don't even provision a Windows VM without 60G worth of space due to how bad it is on cleaning itself up/bloat. I wasn't even able to install Windows 7 a few months ago due to the WinSxS folder continuously bloating to fill the disk (stock on a T440p - super weird issues). It's almost as if they broke new-install update cycles on Win7 on purpose =/ My question is why the hell would they turn off a feature like this in the first place?! What is the actual "money making" motivation behind the decision?

nightski 7y ago
That sounds like something was seriously wrong with your install. I am on a desktop running windows 10 since its release on which I use daily and install a lot of software - and the windows folder is sitting at 12 GB.
- rstuart4133 7y ago
  > the windows folder is sitting at 12 GB I don't think the Windows folder is a particular good indication of Windows space usage. A while ago Microsoft put a tablet killer design out there: 11 Screen, 4GB RAM, Touch Screen and 32GB SSD. Man+dog shipped them. Then man+dog found the machines died because Windows ran out of disk space on patch Tuesday. So regardless of what is in the windows directory 32GB is not enough to run Windows. We "fixed" the problem by replacing Windows with Linux. Total size of Linux install, which included Libre Office and a selection of browsers: less than 4GB. Microsoft attempting to fix the size issue by removing 100M of backups when the scale of the problem they are trying to solve is 4GB vs 32GB is a almost laughable.
  - gambiting 7y ago
    As an owner of one of these early tablets(quad core atom, 1GB ram, 32GB SSD) I can confirm that you cannot install updates anymore after a while, even when there's a few GB left, the system just refuses to proceed.
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    I have the same issue, just with Android tablets.
  - ajdlinux 7y ago
    My mother's Intel NUC runs into this problem. Next time I go to visit I think I'm going to have to figure out if we can move the Windows install off the 32GB eMMC onto something else...
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
  Two of the worst offenders - the swap and hibernation files - don't live in the Windows folder.

nightski 7y ago

That sounds like something was seriously wrong with your install. I am on a desktop running windows 10 since its release on which I use daily and install a lot of software - and the windows folder is sitting at 12 GB.

rstuart4133 7y ago
> the windows folder is sitting at 12 GB I don't think the Windows folder is a particular good indication of Windows space usage. A while ago Microsoft put a tablet killer design out there: 11 Screen, 4GB RAM, Touch Screen and 32GB SSD. Man+dog shipped them. Then man+dog found the machines died because Windows ran out of disk space on patch Tuesday. So regardless of what is in the windows directory 32GB is not enough to run Windows. We "fixed" the problem by replacing Windows with Linux. Total size of Linux install, which included Libre Office and a selection of browsers: less than 4GB. Microsoft attempting to fix the size issue by removing 100M of backups when the scale of the problem they are trying to solve is 4GB vs 32GB is a almost laughable.
- gambiting 7y ago
  As an owner of one of these early tablets(quad core atom, 1GB ram, 32GB SSD) I can confirm that you cannot install updates anymore after a while, even when there's a few GB left, the system just refuses to proceed.
- pjmlp 7y ago
  I have the same issue, just with Android tablets.
- ajdlinux 7y ago
  My mother's Intel NUC runs into this problem. Next time I go to visit I think I'm going to have to figure out if we can move the Windows install off the 32GB eMMC onto something else...
SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Two of the worst offenders - the swap and hibernation files - don't live in the Windows folder.