I think windows takes up a bit too much storage.
I think windows takes up a bit too much storage.
Not mine, although I have had similar issues. Found here
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That's how I got a netbook. It had 32GB storagestorage, and windows+office took 27 of that. And then it wanted to download an 8GB update file. And yes, we have cleaned up anything we could wipe off the system.
I installed Linux, with office and development tools an a few extras, and was still below 5GB.
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Any bit used for windows is too much.
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Seems like an issue with downloaded updates, they keep getting errors and then repeat downloading without removing the previous attempt.
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I've had issues with windows failing to delete temp files if the c drive is 3tb or bigger, so they accumulate until you see that the folder is 500gb big and go to manually clear it.
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In fairness hibernation files need to be massive because they need to be able to store the full running state of RAM which on a reasonable computer comes out to 10s of gigs. If you want to hibernate Linux the swap partition will look similar.
Also no idea why virtual memory is counted there that's just a memory addressing method.
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okay, but what about the 310gb of system files?
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When it hibernates it saves RAM contents to disk, I assume they have 12 GB RAM.
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Sure and that's whatever... But 310GB for the operating system? That's nuts
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Sure, but what about the system files?
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Lmao my brain interpreted that as 31.0 I just noticed
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This might help?
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A windows install won’t fit on a base model Mac mini? lol
This must be wrong…
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It will, it's a corrupt os. You can put it on a 50gb drive if you want. Probably lower, had 17gb images I would deploy for media screens, but it's not worth bothering with.
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At first it seemed like you were doxxing yourself but now I think you got a god complex
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Sorry?
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powercfg.exe /hibernate off
First step I take when faced with a new Windows installation.
And the 310GB sysfiles... I take it Windows is on a very large partition? Create a small, 120GB or so, partition on this disk. You'll never use that much space. Windows expands if it is installed on a large partition with all sorts of cache.
Hate on Windows all you want, the path its headed it deserves it. Yet any OS will behave badly if it's configured badly.
There’s nothing the sysadmin should have to worry about here. This is entirely on Windows. No other system in existence just fills up the space of the drive it’s on like this. This isn’t configured poorly. It’s just a bad OS.
My Windows 10 installation is on a 120GB partition on a 256GB NVMe SSD with hibernate off and I don't have these issues. I have applied these changes since the first laptop I bought, 2012 Windows 7.
I use hibernate because sleep stopped fucking working. I disabled every sleep wake I could find and it sort of worked until an update and now sleep just shuts my monitor off for a second. It doesn't even log out. That's windows 10. I just got a laptop with 11 and similar issues. It basically locks the screen but doesn't sleep. If it does sleep, it'll wake up for no reason at night.
Wait, your win 10 actually locked for you? Since day 1 this never worked on mine
or install linux on the partiton instad ;)
That isn't a solution
The issue is usually cached updates.