Monday, December 01
Die, Microsoft, Die
System Restore was using up 100GB of disk on my new system.
The only indication of this was that there was 100GB of missing space that I couldn't account for - and that after I turned off System Restore, I got it all back.
In Windows XP, you could control the amount of space System Restore would use. In Vista, it's fixed at 15% of your disk space, and bad luck to you if that's a problem.
Sigh.
Currently copying about a terabyte of data off my old Vista box in preparation for switching over to the new one. If I get paid this week I'm going to pick up another 1.5TB drive. Don't absolutely need it, but it will make the migration process a lot easier.
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System Restore was using up 100GB of disk on my new system.
The only indication of this was that there was 100GB of missing space that I couldn't account for - and that after I turned off System Restore, I got it all back.
In Windows XP, you could control the amount of space System Restore would use. In Vista, it's fixed at 15% of your disk space, and bad luck to you if that's a problem.
Sigh.
Currently copying about a terabyte of data off my old Vista box in preparation for switching over to the new one. If I get paid this week I'm going to pick up another 1.5TB drive. Don't absolutely need it, but it will make the migration process a lot easier.
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It seems peculiar that they would allocate a fixed and unchanging percentage. I wonder what they were thinking?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, December 01 2008 09:18 AM (+rSRq)
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I discovered this on my laptop.
A case of <scratches head> where did my disk space go ? What ! Ack.
Theres also the shadow copies as well.
A case of <scratches head> where did my disk space go ? What ! Ack.
Theres also the shadow copies as well.
Posted by: Andrew at Monday, December 01 2008 09:39 AM (/uGTr)
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Steven, what they're thinking is: Our users are idiots. If we give them an information at all, they'll just get confused. If we give them useful control panels, they'll just screw things up.
There are quite a few places where Vista has gone backwards compared with XP, and they all display this kind of thinking.
There are quite a few places where Vista has gone backwards compared with XP, and they all display this kind of thinking.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, December 01 2008 11:00 AM (PiXy!)
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Making it a fixed percentage doesn't even make any sense. The need doesn't scale with the side of the HD, after all. I could see it as a percentage with a ceiling, but it sounds like they didn't do that.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, December 01 2008 01:28 PM (+rSRq)
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I bet you could cut down on a lot of spam by putting "saua.info" into the global killfile.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, December 03 2008 03:56 PM (+rSRq)
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Indeed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, December 03 2008 05:56 PM (PiXy!)
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