On 08/07/2018 03:15, Mayayana wrote:

So the company president and the main programmers
each have an entirely different story about how it works.
The whole idea of "hard linking makes no sense in the
first place. It's as unnecessarily confusing as having
non-functional, fake folders that mimic pre-7 app data
paths. There's no need to show those fake folders in
order for Explorer to perform a virtualization rerouting
of files for non-conforming software.

Lol!

They're copying all the drivers from the install disk
into winsxs. They also seem to be copying every single
system file, in any version, that comes through. If
you have an AMD-32 you'll still have Intel-64 files and
vice versa. There are thousands of things you
couldn't possibly ever need, so they're certainly not
reflections from the system folder.

Not to mention, at least with Ultimate, files for every goddamned
language on the planet into ...
C:\Boot
C:\Windows\System32
C:\Windows\SysWOW64

I've gone through these individually compressing non-English folders,
and other bloat folders as well.