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[–] Vinny_93 35 points 5 days 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.

[–] otacon239 48 points 5 days 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.

[–] Vinny_93 4 points 5 days 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.

[–] otacon239 29 points 5 days 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.

[–] Vinny_93 6 points 5 days 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 5 days ago

Windows S mode?

\s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

[–] SkyezOpen 4 points 5 days 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] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkyezOpen 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It still locks fine, just won't sleep.

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

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

[–] SkyezOpen 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The issue is usually cached updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

or install linux on the partiton instad ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Its a shit solution, but a solution nevertheless.