No more forced feature updates for Windows 10

[Tony1044]

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsex...rience-with-control-quality-and-transparency/

Though it does say if you're getting to the end of life of a feature release version , it will forcibly update anyway so not entirely true.

Welcome news though for a lot of people.

 

[ubuysa]

I notice also they're calling it the May 2019 update now, and not the April 2019 update......

 

[Oussebon]

My PC will miss being waterboarded by Microsoft.

 

[SpyderTracks]

My PC will miss being waterboarded by Microsoft.

You’ll just have to fulfill its waterboarding needs yourself. That’s one kinky pc you got there!

 

[ubuysa]

My PC will miss being waterboarded by Microsoft.

How will you waterboard it in future then?

 

[Tony1044]

My PC will miss being waterboarded by Microsoft.

Don't worry- MS will still torture it with regular updates ;-)

 

[SpyderTracks]

Don't worry- MS will still torture it with regular updates ;-)

I might start throwing razor blades at mine, see if it compares in damage terms.

 

[Oussebon]

How will you waterboard it in future then?

I'll have to make do with something like:



If I want to torture the poor thing, I'll do what I did yesterday and accidentally tick the "compress OS drive" option in Disk Cleanup.

Guaranteed to break everything. And surprisingly hard to undo...

 

[ubuysa]

I'll have to make do with something like:

View attachment 12829

If I want to torture the poor thing, I'll do what I did yesterday and accidentally tick the "compress OS drive" option in Disk Cleanup.

Guaranteed to break everything. And surprisingly hard to undo...

Well that's certainly more interesting than fish!

There are lots of ways the user can foul up, strangely when they do everyone blames the computer......

 

[Oussebon]

I blame me for clicking things absent-mindedly.

I blame MS for 1) having something of a nuclear option in the hitherto relatively safe 'disk cleanup' options (I swear that never used to be in there - I'd have noticed something saying there were 30gb savings to be had...) and 2) for making the OS not actually disable compression / uncompress the files when you then tell it to do so.

I don't blame the poor victimised PC.

 

[Tony1044]

I blame me for clicking things absent-mindedly.

I blame MS for 1) having something of a nuclear option in the hitherto relatively safe 'disk cleanup' options (I swear that never used to be in there - I'd have noticed something saying there were 30gb savings to be had...) and 2) for making the OS not actually disable compression / uncompress the files when you then tell it to do so.

I don't blame the poor victimised PC.

Now I'm glad you said that because I was looking at disk cleanup yesterday on the wife's Lenovo. The poor thing only has a paltry 120GB SSD.

I saw the compress your OS drive option and thought exactly that - I was sure it wasn't in that specific spot before.

And I just checked my 1803 version and it's a check box outside of main selection area

How it used to look:



How it now looks:

 

[ubuysa]

Now I'm glad you said that because I was looking at disk cleanup yesterday on the wife's Lenovo. The poor thing only has a paltry 120GB SSD.

I saw the compress your OS drive option and thought exactly that - I was sure it wasn't in that specific spot before.

And I just checked my 1803 version and it's a check box outside of main selection area

How it used to look:

View attachment 12831

How it now looks:

View attachment 12832

That's interesting because I don't see that (Windows 10 Home 1809). I do have the compress option in the disk properties (as before) but I don't see it in disk cleanup. Is that perhaps a Pro option?

 

[Oussebon]

And I just checked my 1803 version and it's a check box outside of main selection area

That's definitely still there on my Win 10 Pro 1803 (as well as being in Disk Cleanup), and it's how you're meant to switch the compression off apparently; except it doesn't do that (properly).

I unchecked it, pressed apply, waited for the processing to finish, restarted the system, freshly installed steam for about the 3rd time that afternoon, and saw the newly created Steam folder show up as compressed in Windows Explorer. Needless to say the checkbox was still unchecked. I think I eventually got it with gpedit...

 

[Tony1044]

That's interesting because I don't see that (Windows 10 Home 1809). I do have the compress option in the disk properties (as before) but I don't see it in disk cleanup. Is that perhaps a Pro option?

Do you know I always thought disk compression was only missing if a disk was formatted FAT/exFAT/FAT32. Alas I have no home editions to compare.

Did a quick search but that level of granularity in terms of features doesn't seem to be available.

 

[ubuysa]

Do you know I always thought disk compression was only missing if a disk was formatted FAT/exFAT/FAT32. Alas I have no home editions to compare.

Did a quick search but that level of granularity in terms of features doesn't seem to be available.

I'm all NTFS. I suspect it's a Home/Pro thing.....

 

[Tony1044]

I'm all NTFS. I suspect it's a Home/Pro thing.....

Yeah I should have added that I don't believe it's been possible to use FAT of any kind for an OS drive since Windows 7

 

[ubuysa]

Yeah I should have added that I don't believe it's been possible to use FAT of any kind for an OS drive since Windows 7

Except for the EFI partition under UEFI/GPT, that's FAT32 still