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Windows 11's big 2024 update leaves behind 9GB of undeletable files
- roschdal 2y ago[flagged]
- Alupis 2y agoI know this is mostly a meme - but modern Linux distros are pretty darn great to use. I'd wager majority of normal users would be entirely fine using a Linux system, since most people use the computer just as a web terminal.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoWhen users have to touch the terminal as often as they touch the command prompt Linux will be viable.
- Alupis 2y agoYou don't ever need to open a terminal on a linux desktop. Not sure what you are talking about?
- ziddoap 2y ago>Due to a bug >Microsoft is preparing a patch to solve the problem Very not interesting.
- Wowfunhappy 2y agoI realize that bugs happen, but to me this feels like another point on a pattern of Microsoft being too cavalier with my hard drive space. Sure it was a mistake in this case, but it hints at what Microsoft prioritizes internally.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y ago> How enormous are we talking? > An impressive 8.63GB in size, a sizable chunk of all but the largest of drives. That feels pretty hyperbolic.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoLess than half a percent of a 2TB HDD.
- buildsjets 2y agoGoody for you - but I am stuck with a 512GB drive on a 2024 issued laptop (small capacity due to dAtA s3curiTy or some silliness, the defense industry is full of nonsense like that). I currently have 90.4 GB available, so this update would be consuming 10% of my available storage.
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- doubled112 2y agoThe BestBuy near me still sells laptops with 128GB SSDs. I can’t imagine the people who can’t machines like that are doing much, but 9GB is a big chunk of that.
- navjack27 2y agoWell, that sounds like a work laptop, so you shouldn't really be doing much of anything personal on it except for work. If you have drive space problems, then talk to your work.
- dataflow 2y agoAnd your OS partition is how much of that? Mine is like 100GB and this would easily consume the majority of the free space it has left. And no, the rest of the space on the disk isn't just unallocated space sitting there for the OS to bloat into.
- 2y ago
- 1970-01-01 2y agopsexec -i -s cmd cd %tmp% del * /s cd C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution del * /s exit
- pknomad 2y agoI presume that's what deletes the cache... but I see this from the article: > Microsoft is preparing a patch to solve the problem, which should be rolled out as part of an upcoming update. Until then, you should leave the Windows Update cache untouched. It really isn’t worth the hassle of reinstalling Windows just to clear those files.
- poizan42 2y agoDoes it work? You may need the TrustedInstaller SID in your token in order to succeed (and possibly enable the SeRestorePrivilege)
- navjack27 2y agoI'm sorry, but literally do not do this Unless you eventually want a seriously borked up Windows install.
- sovok_x 2y agoThat reminded me of how Windows abuses my HDD by regularly writing dozens of logs I won't ever need unless I'm both knowledgeable enough and debug for specific errors. And also about WinSxS/Temp/InFlight folder that gets filled with an undeleted garbage of unknown purposes. You can't safely delete files there (with elevated System privileges) even after finishing delayed patching and dism cleanup operations because some of them are still used by the system somehow despite it being a "temp" folder. While thousands of empty subfolders there slow dism/TrustedInstaller runs to a crawl on their enumeration.