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Used to be, if you did a CLEAN INSTALL of Win10 on one of those netbooks, you would end up with maybe 7-12GB free, out of 32GB eMMC (actually more like 27-28GB in binary).
So, I finally gave up updating my Dell A6-9220e laptop from 1803 to 1903, couldn't get enough free space, not even enough to do a "Reset" of Windows, in preperation for the upgrade.
So I made a MCT USB stick, and used that, and booted off of it, and formatted the main OS partition, and re-installed over that.
After downloading Firefox, Skype, AMD video drivers (two of them), CPU-Z and HWMonitor, and installing and updating everything, I had.. wait for it... like 2GB free. Only. WTF??
I can only wonder about how many of those BS games and apps auto-install during Win10's initial installation.
I wish that Microsoft would release a "Win10 Slim" or something, that didn't auto-load all kinds of bloat, and was more... discrete (?), with updates.
I think that it was actually 2.7GB free, after I moved the AMD drivers to my microSD storage drive.
Existing in that state, with only a few updates away from bricking the PC because "out of storage", is crazy.
Now, some of that might have been due to a larger-than-default HIBERFIL.SYS, because I upgraded it to 8GB of RAM, so it probably allocated 8GB for PAGEFILE.SYS and 6GB for HIBERFIL.SYS, which is 14GB right off the bat. But the developers of these "CloudBook" (aka new name for "Netbooks") should have taken that into consideration, IMHO.
I've got a Lenovo on order, another A6-9220C model, that one has a FHD screen and a 64GB eMMC, hopefully that one will allow for Win10 upgrades without too much hassle, and possibly even allow for upgrading the RAM. (Someone hinted that the mobo might have an M.2 NVMe socket on it, that would be grand.)
Edit: ACTUALLY, you wouldn't even need a "Slim" editon of Win10, simply allow for an opt-out during installation, to stop those many and varied "Apps" from downloading and installing.
So, I finally gave up updating my Dell A6-9220e laptop from 1803 to 1903, couldn't get enough free space, not even enough to do a "Reset" of Windows, in preperation for the upgrade.
So I made a MCT USB stick, and used that, and booted off of it, and formatted the main OS partition, and re-installed over that.
After downloading Firefox, Skype, AMD video drivers (two of them), CPU-Z and HWMonitor, and installing and updating everything, I had.. wait for it... like 2GB free. Only. WTF??
I can only wonder about how many of those BS games and apps auto-install during Win10's initial installation.
I wish that Microsoft would release a "Win10 Slim" or something, that didn't auto-load all kinds of bloat, and was more... discrete (?), with updates.
I think that it was actually 2.7GB free, after I moved the AMD drivers to my microSD storage drive.
Existing in that state, with only a few updates away from bricking the PC because "out of storage", is crazy.
Now, some of that might have been due to a larger-than-default HIBERFIL.SYS, because I upgraded it to 8GB of RAM, so it probably allocated 8GB for PAGEFILE.SYS and 6GB for HIBERFIL.SYS, which is 14GB right off the bat. But the developers of these "CloudBook" (aka new name for "Netbooks") should have taken that into consideration, IMHO.
I've got a Lenovo on order, another A6-9220C model, that one has a FHD screen and a 64GB eMMC, hopefully that one will allow for Win10 upgrades without too much hassle, and possibly even allow for upgrading the RAM. (Someone hinted that the mobo might have an M.2 NVMe socket on it, that would be grand.)
Edit: ACTUALLY, you wouldn't even need a "Slim" editon of Win10, simply allow for an opt-out during installation, to stop those many and varied "Apps" from downloading and installing.
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