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Re:Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Window... by hirsin on Monday July 01, 2019 @04:25PM (#20329378)
Pretty much this. I once tried adding a new ~3 MB binary, and it was rejected on effectively these grounds. Now consider that the team making these in/out decisions has a backlog of requests just like it for larger items...
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Re:Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Window... by pas on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @02:11AM (#20332575)
Is there a team that can exterminate other teams in very medieval ways that fail to make stuff installable to non system drive?

Because there should be.

It's crazy that everything still wants to put stuff on C:\ ... I'm looking at you Visual Studio and Win SDK.

Plus Users\Public shared goodies. And the %userprofile%\AppData. I get that every application thinks it needs to put its cache/files there, but then why can't folks relocate users' homes? :/

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Re:Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Window... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @02:48AM (#20332762)
> Is there a team that can exterminate other teams in very medieval ways that fail to make stuff installable to non system drive?

I'd love if that team would also take a look at Android, where you simply can't not install on the "system drive" aka. main phone flash.

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Re:Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Window... by hirsin on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:08PM (#20337127)
That was a design decision made because install to SD card causes apps to load slowly (to my understanding). It used to be possible but they killed it.

Doesn't hurt that it helps speed up the upgrade cycle since users run out of on-board space sooner.

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