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I think windows takes up a bit too much storage. (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Not mine, although I have had similar issues. Found here

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but this doesn’t change the fact that it’s the fault of the OS and that the user shouldn’t have to take these steps. I totally believe Windows does this, but not that it has any legitimate reason to happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The reason Windows works like this is because there are loads of people who try to run Windows 10 on super old weak Intel Celerons so they try all kinds of caching steps to make it manageable.

It would be better if Microsoft made some sort of lite edition, or immediately give you the option to turn this stuff off when configuring it. Problem is, Windows is used by a lot of people and most people have no clue how to configure an OS.

You have two options: either spend a lot on a computer that can run the OS it comes with without issue (Apple), or try your luck with a GNU/Linux distro, for which you might need to develop some knowledge about what you're doing.

Or put up with Windows's shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Windows S mode?

\s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You shouldn't have to do this to avoid the massive bloat and new users shouldn't be expected to have to learn how to "fix" their brand-new operating system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, your win 10 actually locked for you? Since day 1 this never worked on mine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It still locks fine, just won't sleep.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

damn, mine wont lock on its own or sleep, i just 3 finger salute and go now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh I manually lock it. I have it set not to lock or sleep automatically.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The issue is usually cached updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

or install linux on the partiton instad ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That isn't a solution

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Its a shit solution, but a solution nevertheless.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Any bit used for windows is too much.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Seems like an issue with downloaded updates, they keep getting errors and then repeat downloading without removing the previous attempt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When it hibernates it saves RAM contents to disk, I assume they have 12 GB RAM.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure and that's whatever... But 310GB for the operating system? That's nuts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

AI, homey!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but what about the system files?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Lmao my brain interpreted that as 31.0 I just noticed

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

okay, but what about the 310gb of system files?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its a bug. Win11 recently did not cleanup temp nor updates files when the job ran to clean them up. A lot of people had 10's of gb of data that could be cleared, but wasnt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's a lot of words to say "it sucks".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's just normal, they gotta store your data and the downloaded updates somewhere...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a crazy amount of storage for an OS to use for itself is the point, I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Of course, that's what I'm saying. They gotta backup all that data they're collecting while they're tracking you. And windows after downloading an update and applying it, they don't delete it. They keep it, to share it with other windows machines, cause it's cheaper for MS to do peer to peer between windows computers instead of downloading it directly from them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

310 GB? Dafuq?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

From experience I'm going to say it's something producing files in the system temp folder, and not cleaning them up. I've seen this often with 3rd party software, Adobe and sage are often culprits. Win7 did have an issue at one point that would also do it .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This might help?

https://www.homedev.com.au/free/patchcleaner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oohh, compares nicely to the 1.something GB of my Linux install that, you know, actually works, doesn't spy on me, and was free as in beer and liberty.

Switch to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which distro are you using? 1.x GB seems quite low.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

sad NixOS noises

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ok I'm just gonna ask here. Why does catbox hate android so much?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A windows install won’t fit on a base model Mac mini? lol

This must be wrong…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lmk when u find a solution

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The curious donut that I am, I found similar issues listed. Apparently the answer is running chkdsk /r, as it's simply a misrepresentation / bug instead of actual bloat.

You could try that and let us know if that worked for you.

Disclosure: chkdsk /r is a command that attempts to repair hard drives sectors.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

I found a great solution, windows dosent occupy a single bit on my system, I use arch BTW

[–] dxc -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At first it seemed like you were doxxing yourself but now I think you got a god complex

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Sorry?