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"Ant" wrote | Mine is almost 9 GB even though my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 is from October | 2016 and kept updated. I even use Disk Cleanup monthly to remove its | WUs. | 9 GB. Chicken feed. If you do a search for winsxs GB you'll find 20, 30, 60.... There's no limit to the madness. I had a Vista laptop with 80 GB used. It was updated to 7 and still took up 80 GB of space. (Very little software.) I had to reinstall Vista from scratch, then do the update, in order to clean out the mess. Wow. I really wished there was a way to get rid of these left overs fully. -- Quote of the Week: "I got worms! That's what we're going to call it. We're going to specialize in selling worm farms. You know like ant farms. What's the matter, a little tense about the flight?" --Lloyd Christmas (Dumb and Dumber movie) Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / http://antfarm.ma.cx / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Stan Brown writes: On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:25:06 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: The tablet is a touch tablet, which makes makes it a pain to make the inputs, and I have never found how to do the operation mouse operation Click, Shift Click to select multiple files on the touch screen. Ctrl+A selects all files in the current folder. Yes, but Keith might have wanted to select, say, 7 files, or a range of files, rather than all of them. Of course there's also the command prompt. Some combination of control, alt, and shift, allows extending a selection with "holes" in it. It's control-alt that allows mousing and selecting separate items. They don't have to be touching one another. You can also select "chunks" and add them while holding down those keys. https://s22.postimg.cc/xe221hskx/extended_selection.gif Paul |
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writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Stan Brown writes: On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:25:06 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: The tablet is a touch tablet, which makes makes it a pain to make the inputs, and I have never found how to do the operation mouse operation Click, Shift Click to select multiple files on the touch screen. Ctrl+A selects all files in the current folder. Yes, but Keith might have wanted to select, say, 7 files, or a range of files, rather than all of them. Of course there's also the command prompt. Some combination of control, alt, and shift, allows extending a selection with "holes" in it. It's control-alt that allows mousing and selecting separate items. They don't have to be touching one another. I know those, and I think Keith does too: I think he was just saying he was finding them near-impossible on a touch-screen device (no real keyboard or mouse). You can also select "chunks" and add them while holding down those keys. https://s22.postimg.cc/xe221hskx/extended_selection.gif Paul Not sure how I'd select a chunk and add it to an existing selection - the action of starting to select the chunk would I think deselect anything already selected. But no matter! I think Keith's comment above was about the difficulty of using a touch screen as the _only_ input. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Never raise your hand to your children. It leaves your mid-section unprotected |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Stan Brown writes: On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:25:06 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: The tablet is a touch tablet, which makes makes it a pain to make the inputs, and I have never found how to do the operation mouse operation Click, Shift Click to select multiple files on the touch screen. Ctrl+A selects all files in the current folder. Yes, but Keith might have wanted to select, say, 7 files, or a range of files, rather than all of them. Of course there's also the command prompt. Some combination of control, alt, and shift, allows extending a selection with "holes" in it. It's control-alt that allows mousing and selecting separate items. They don't have to be touching one another. I know those, and I think Keith does too: I think he was just saying he was finding them near-impossible on a touch-screen device (no real keyboard or mouse). You can also select "chunks" and add them while holding down those keys. https://s22.postimg.cc/xe221hskx/extended_selection.gif Paul Not sure how I'd select a chunk and add it to an existing selection - the action of starting to select the chunk would I think deselect anything already selected. But no matter! I think Keith's comment above was about the difficulty of using a touch screen as the _only_ input. You might need some sort of sticky keys solution, where pressing some keys sequentially, builds up a hotkey-combo for you. Having had the misfortune, of using a tiny touch device just a couple days ago, I can sympathize with the problems of operating them. What rubbish!!! I'm thinking "Bluetooth keyboard for the win". If you need to do extensive data entry, and not watch music videos on it, then get a keyboard. Paul |
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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. |
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On 7/8/2018 6:41 AM, Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Paul writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Stan Brown writes: On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:25:06 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: The tablet is a touch tablet, which makes makes it a pain to make the inputs, and I have never found how to do the operation mouse operation Click, Shift Click to select multiple files on the touch screen. Ctrl+A selects all files in the current folder. Â*Yes, but Keith might have wanted to select, say, 7 files, or a range of files, rather than all of them. Of course there's also the command prompt. Some combination of control, alt, and shift, allows extending a selection with "holes" in it. It's control-alt that allows mousing and selecting separate items. They don't have to be touching one another. I know those, and I think Keith does too: I think he was just saying he was finding them near-impossible on a touch-screen device (no real keyboard or mouse). You can also select "chunks" and add them while holding down those keys. https://s22.postimg.cc/xe221hskx/extended_selection.gif Â* Paul Not sure how I'd select a chunk and add it to an existing selection - the action of starting to select the chunk would I think deselect anything already selected. But no matter! I think Keith's comment above was about the difficulty of using a touch screen as the _only_ input. You might need some sort of sticky keys solution, where pressing some keys sequentially, builds up a hotkey-combo for you. Having had the misfortune, of using a tiny touch device just a couple days ago, I can sympathize with the problems of operating them. What rubbish!!! I'm thinking "Bluetooth keyboard for the win". If you need to do extensive data entry, and not watch music videos on it, then get a keyboard. Â*Â* Paul If you need to do extensive data entry work, get a laptop. I find it amazing that people praise the smartphone and touch tablet, and then run down to Walmart and by keyboards and other peripherals to make it a laptop. While the keyboard idea is great, with my small tablet there is one port that accepts the power cord, the keyboard, etc. When you have to do things like remove thousands of files, it needs to be plugged in, so it is difficult to have a keyboard or mouse attached to the tablet, and have sufficient energy that it will not die during the task you are trying to do. -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 11:21:22 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Not sure how I'd select a chunk and add it to an existing selection - the action of starting to select the chunk would I think deselect anything already selected. But no matter! I think Keith's comment above was about the difficulty of using a touch screen as the _only_ input. What's wrong with turning off the windows update service and deleting the whole softwaredistribution directory and contents? It worked for me when I had a problem. -- Regards - Rodney Pont The from address exists but is mostly dumped, please send any emails to the address below e-mail rpont (at) gmail (dot) com |
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On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 12:09:34 +0100, Java Jive
wrote: 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 Do you know how many languages there are on the planet? According to https://www.linguisticsociety.org/co...re-there-world, in 2009 there were 6,909. But it's possible that they're not all goddamned. |
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On Sat, 07 Jul 2018 21:01:10 -0500, Ant wrote:
Mine is almost 9 GB even though my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 is from October 2016 and kept updated. I even use Disk Cleanup monthly to remove its WUs. I just checked: my winsxs folder is about 16GiB. -- s|b |
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| Not to mention, at least with Ultimate, files for every goddamned | language on the planet into ... | Do you know how many languages there are on the planet? | But it's possible that they're not all goddamned. Context. They're all goddamned if support files you'll never use are taking up space. You set up Windows and the first question is what language do you want. Why maintain language support for hundreds of other languages after that choice is made? It's not as though you might wake up one day speaking Swahili. |
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On 07/08/2018 9:44 AM, s|b wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2018 21:01:10 -0500, Ant wrote: Mine is almost 9 GB even though my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 is from October 2016 and kept updated. I even use Disk Cleanup monthly to remove its WUs. I just checked: my winsxs folder is about 16GiB. I am showing 9.45 GB on Windows 10 Pro. Rene |
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"Mayayana" on Sun, 8 Jul 2018 10:46:23 -0400
typed in alt.windows7.general the following: "Ken Blake" wrote | Not to mention, at least with Ultimate, files for every goddamned | language on the planet into ... | Do you know how many languages there are on the planet? | But it's possible that they're not all goddamned. Context. They're all goddamned if support files you'll never use are taking up space. You set up Windows and the first question is what language do you want. Why maintain language support for hundreds of other languages after that choice is made? It's not as though you might wake up one day speaking Swahili. Eta Pravda! -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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"pyotr filipivich" wrote
| You set up Windows and the first question is what | language do you want. Why maintain language support | for hundreds of other languages after that choice is | made? It's not as though you might wake | up one day speaking Swahili. | | Eta Pravda! Sheesh, I had to go look that up. Why doesn't Windows come with translation functionality? Now *that* could be a justification for language support files. |
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[...] You set up Windows and the first question is what language do you want. Why maintain language support for hundreds of other languages after that choice is made? It's not as though you might wake up one day speaking Swahili. Well, theoretically, Windows is a multi-user system, so ... :-) But seriously, in The Old Days (TM) on our Real UNIX (TM) systems, simultaneous multi-language support was often essential. |
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In message , Mayayana
writes: [] made? It's not as though you might wake up one day speaking Swahili. I think there _is_ a rare condition where people do, actually! (Well I've heard of it happening with French.) However, I don't see that as a reason for keeping every-language support! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "... all your hard work in the hands of twelve people too stupid to get off jury duty." CSI, 200x |
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