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Between the traditional Disk Cleanup and a quick DISM cleanup (which should already be running as a scheduled task) you can get pretty good results on any Windows 8.1/2012R2 and above: Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
> quick DISM cleanup (which should already be running as a scheduled task) Is this a recommendation/suggestion of yours, or a default state?
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Do you have any examples?
John Siracusa used to write about this in his old OS X reviews… Apple would do weird things like make a dark title bar for Garage Band, then a title bar with vertical "traffic" lights in iTunes that wasn't used anywhere else, then a normal looking title bar that was just a few-pixels off in margin from the stock title bar… It's all kind of weird and silly, but nothing at all like Windows where you can suddenly jump i…
Step 0: Back up your registry!
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Do you have any examples?
John Siracusa used to write about this in his old OS X reviews… Apple would do weird things like make a dark title bar for Garage Band, then a title bar with vertical "traffic" lights in iTunes that wasn't used anywhere else, then a normal looking title bar that was just a few-pixels off in margin from the stock title bar… It's all kind of weird and silly, but nothing at all like Windows where you can suddenly jump i…
50-100MB seems like a miniscule amount of space to warrant something like this. My WinSxS folder alone is almost 10GB. If they wanted to save space, even a modest improvement in managing updates would yield space saving results orders of magnitude greater than this.
Yes but isolated registry backups make as much sense as a full backup of a modern Linux Desktop's /etc folder. Probably not much. The config's content depends a lot on the things installed and vice-versa, even more so on Windows (unless they changed something fundamentally since 7). At least on Linux and in particular Ubuntu (Desktop) installations I aim for as little manual configuration changes as possible anyways,…
50-100MB seems like a miniscule amount of space to warrant something like this. My WinSxS folder alone is almost 10GB. If they wanted to save space, even a modest improvement in managing updates would yield space saving results orders of magnitude greater than this.
Marginal gains. 50MB here, 100MB there ... pretty soon you're talking real storage usage.
In how many places does Windows concentrate the settings for everything?
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It’s a skin on a skin on a skin on a skin. Its always been this way. By clicking on “advanced” buttons you can easily end up with four different eras of UI on the screen, including different system fonts and different font rendering algorithms! I can tell you first-hand from trying to get some of that fixed years ago, there’s just so much STUFF in Windows that is hardly ever seen, or should only be seen by “IT profes…
I would not mind the newer interface if it did not screw with half the settings I need.
The Registry is the biggest architectural mistake in Windows - it's a great pity they haven't had the courage to remove it entirely.
The registry is a fantastic idea - it's a great pity software developers misused and screwed it up so badly, and a shame other OSs haven't copied it and built on it. Instead of every tool making its own incompatible, undocumented, non-standard config file/database/format/tools.
Some apps are non-conforming, and store data elsewhere, but as a general model I think it works very well.
50-100MB seems like a miniscule amount of space to warrant something like this. My WinSxS folder alone is almost 10GB. If they wanted to save space, even a modest improvement in managing updates would yield space saving results orders of magnitude greater than this.
Agree on the 50-100MB being minuscule. I don't even provision a Windows VM without 60G worth of space due to how bad it is on cleaning itself up/bloat. I wasn't even able to install Windows 7 a few months ago due to the WinSxS folder continuously bloating to fill the disk (stock on a T440p - super weird issues). It's almost as if they broke new-install update cycles on Win7 on purpose =/ My question is why the hell w…