Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10

Re:Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Window... by rstuart4133 on Monday July 01, 2019 @06:58PM (#20330546)

> the windows folder is sitting at 12 GB

I don't think the Windows folder is a particular good indication of Windows space usage.

A while ago Microsoft put a tablet killer design out there: 11 Screen, 4GB RAM, Touch Screen and 32GB SSD. Man+dog shipped them. Then man+dog found the machines died because Windows ran out of disk space on patch Tuesday. So regardless of what is in the windows directory 32GB is not enough to run Windows.

We "fixed" the problem by replacing Windows with Linux. Total size of Linux install, which included Libre Office and a selection of browsers: less than 4GB.

Microsoft attempting to fix the size issue by removing 100M of backups when the scale of the problem they are trying to solve is 4GB vs 32GB is a almost laughable.

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Re:Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Window... by gambiting on Monday July 01, 2019 @07:51PM (#20330871)

As an owner of one of these early tablets(quad core atom, 1GB ram, 32GB SSD) I can confirm that you cannot install updates anymore after a while, even when there's a few GB left, the system just refuses to proceed.

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Re:Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Window... by ajdlinux on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:57AM (#20332511)

My mother's Intel NUC runs into this problem. Next time I go to visit I think I'm going to have to figure out if we can move the Windows install off the 32GB eMMC onto something else...

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Re:Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Window... by pjmlp on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:10AM (#20332307)

I have the same issue, just with Android tablets.

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