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.
>Microsoft is preparing a patch to solve the problem
Very not interesting.
psexec -i -s cmd
cd %tmp%
del * /s
cd C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution
del * /s
exit
> 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.
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.
That feels pretty hyperbolic.
Not really, thankfully you have ability to slim them down to a small size.
> You must be gobsmacked every time you take a picture with your phone.
At least that is data I want?
And I wish it was only the data I want in my photos. They keep adding more things to each photo, and you end up with HDR and a little video file if you're not careful.
However, this kernel does much more than, say, C64 ever did. BPF and ACPI parser alone is bigger than BASIC, there's a network stack, multitasking etc. Multiple people have claimed you cannot do it with new kernels. They are wrong. (E.g. Floppinux by Jankowski.)
Remember that a lot of the software back then took more than one disk. Amiga Workbench for example used 3 for 1.0 I believe... And that built off Kickstart, which is the true kernel and was extra 256 KB.
Sure, 1 update is 9GB, but how many applications don't clean up after themselves regularly? Game launchers, browsers, code editors.
I've noticed folders with gigabytes worth of logs, 3(!) previous installers being kept for some reason, etc. etc.
This is rampant.
My primary OS drive is not your hoarder parents' attic.