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Disk Cleanup option
Every now and again, I run the built-in Disk Cleanup
program to get rid of cruft - much left behind by updates. I did so the other day and there was an element in the list of items to erase that I hadn't seen before. (It was unchecked by default.) cleanup was offering to compress the OS drive and produced an estimate of how much space that would save. I'd never seen that before. Is it the result of an update? (...or is MS planning to expand the already bloated Windows system and is softening up the blow to its customers in advance of using all their disk space...) |
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On 14/02/2019 03.12, Jason wrote:
Every now and again, I run the built-in Disk Cleanup program to get rid of cruft - much left behind by updates. I did so the other day and there was an element in the list of items to erase that I hadn't seen before. (It was unchecked by default.) cleanup was offering to compress the OS drive and produced an estimate of how much space that would save. Windows could compress NTFS disks since at least two decades ago, this is not new. It can compress entire directories or separate files transparently. And before Windows, there were MsDOS tools that did similarly. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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Jason wrote in news:MPG.36cb965344e1de019896e5
@news.eternal-september.org: Every now and again, I run the built-in Disk Cleanup program to get rid of cruft - much left behind by updates. I did so the other day and there was an element in the list of items to erase that I hadn't seen before. (It was unchecked by default.) cleanup was offering to compress the OS drive and produced an estimate of how much space that would save. I'd never seen that before. Is it the result of an update? (...or is MS planning to expand the already bloated Windows system and is softening up the blow to its customers in advance of using all their disk space...) perhaps they are getting you ready for "reserved storage" see: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/...indows-10-and- reserved-storage/ -- A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. -Bertrand Russell Registered Linux User #393236 |
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On 2/13/19 9:12 PM, Jason wrote:
Every now and again, I run the built-in Disk Cleanup program to get rid of cruft - much left behind by updates. I did so the other day and there was an element in the list of items to erase that I hadn't seen before. (It was unchecked by default.) cleanup was offering to compress the OS drive and produced an estimate of how much space that would save. I'd never seen that before. Is it the result of an update? (...or is MS planning to expand the already bloated Windows system and is softening up the blow to its customers in advance of using all their disk space...) I've been on the Insider version since day one and I've seen where they have added that item to the list also. My view is that it's just another way MS is trying to offer you a way to create more space. As said, it's not a new feature, they're just putting out where the average Joe can see and use it. I'm sure a vast majority of WIndows users don't know they can compress a drive or folders etc. to save space. Al |
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