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Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Gubbi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:32:12 -0000

Thanks.

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Gubbi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:31:40 -0000

Absolutely !! And also by including at least some way of cleaning up unused dlls.

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Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

rolfen — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:14:37 -0000

Well... just look who it benefits
- Less space = less space to install other OSes (linux and osx if youre running a macbook)
- More HD demand = well, HD manufacturers are gonna like it

The thing that some ppl dont understand and that really bothers me, is not the space in itself, is that as a software knowledgeable person, I KNOW there are other ways to solve this problem. They could have used some sort of system that stores DELTA differences, and it would have resulted in AT LEAST twice less used space for the same functionality (most probably more then 4x size reduction in reality).

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

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Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

szmoker — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:41:44 -0000

We have Vista Business, Office 2007 Basic.
It means all the programs we use on the PCs are Outlook, Excel and Word, no other programs installed, no other programs ever used.
The WinSxS here is well over 8,5gb.

There's a 20gb partition for OS, and it has about 50mb free, after cleaning everything I could think of (including the never-used hibernate file).

Maybe I'll install Linux with OpenOffice next time.

Re: Protocol Buffers And JSON, Part - I

Gubbi — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:40:11 -0000

Hmm.

At the same time, there is also nothing in JSON that doesn't "allow"
handling multiple versions of objects. Isn't it?

Thanks for stopping by and discussing.

Re: Protocol Buffers And JSON, Part - I

Jan-Erik — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:12:02 -0000

Well most importantly PB has support for different versions of the objects you try to (de)serialize which JSON doesn't offer. This mechanism becomes very impoartant when you have to deal in an entrprise environment where the components can be using different versions of the domain objects.

Re: Web

Dogan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:48:48 -0000

worse than bloat. cant you think anything else than $$, larger system partition means larger image files for backup/restore/migrate and that means time, MS is stealing our time not only money.

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Dogan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:48:48 -0000

worse than bloat. cant you think anything else than $$, larger system partition means larger image files for backup/restore/migrate and that means time, MS is stealing our time not only money.

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Allan — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:56:08 -0000

Isn't it amazing how WP has outgrown MT?

Re: Web

Allan — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:56:08 -0000

Isn't it amazing how WP has outgrown MT?

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

robanco — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:45:19 -0000

Three laptops with the same problem, one only has 20gb HDD, a Fujitsu U1010 and half is taken by these two files. Run speed is contunially degrading as this Winsxs files grows. I have not loaded anything other than Office 2007 but it seems that the file grows with Internet usage.

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robanco — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:45:19 -0000

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Uthaya — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:42:57 -0000

Explanation from Microsoft on why WinSxS exists:

http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive/2008/0...

Re: Web

Uthaya — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:42:57 -0000

Explanation from Microsoft on why WinSxS exists:

http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive/2008/0...

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Drew — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:07:39 -0000

There is a one time cleanup solution. in windows/system32 there is a file called vsp1cln1.exe. it will help with the bloat at least a bit by getting rid of redundencies, but it might not work for everyone.

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Senthil Kumar P — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:38:48 -0000

Same here 13+ GB winsxs.. I cannot downgrade to Windows XP since my laptop came with windows vista. Finally decided to install Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in my laptop. Surprisingly this full featured os run in less than 2 GB. Slick and fast.. and more importantly its free..
This is just my own humble decision... Not telling / asking anybody to switch to ubuntu.

Re: Web

Senthil Kumar P — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:38:48 -0000

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:34:23 -0000

Now my Winsxs folder is more than 13GB!

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

shinmai — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:28:38 -0000

I was awestruck when I noticed that Vistas minimum requirements included 40Gb of harddisk space.

Ivanmor: Oh yes, thank you microsoft. I certainly wish that my harddisk be filled up with redundant duplicates of every dll file ever to grace my system, so that I - too - can enjoy the benefits of this security, provided for idiots who install incompatible software.. Please! I've installed NOTHING, only Vista updates, and the damn WinSxS-folder is eating up 15 gigabytes.

I only need Vista for compatability testing, but am strongly considering just putting a notice on all my software that it's untested and unsupported on Vista, as I'm not really too interested in consuming a quarter of my laptops hard-disk on this crap...

Re: Web

shinmai — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:28:38 -0000

Re: Web

Gubbi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:48:05 -0000

Ivan,

Sorry for delay in approving the comment.

500 Gigs might be cheap at your place, but not so everywhere. (I'm in India.) Lets say it'll eventually be cheaper everywhere and this is something not to worry.

However, a brute force approach to solve this problem isn't wise. They don't even cleanup never-will-be-used-again files. Look at the low end netbooks that come loaded with Vista, or the ones that run on SSDs, they are really squeezing the space there.

It certainly is laughable that an operating system uses 9+ gigs in the name of backwards compatibility. In fact, it is feeding the culture of lazy programmers and is also a representative of such culture.

Whether Vista is really the best is debatable.

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Gubbi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:48:05 -0000

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

ivanmor — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:26:47 -0000

Bloat ware... no way!!! Though its taking SPACE, its saving your a%# when you install software that people dont put the time and energy to properlly test, so in a way, MS is helping here guys!

At the price of a 500 gig HD, what 70 bucks.... why someone would even care how much an OS is taking these days, surprises me.... you want the best, but cant even caugh up some $$ for a small but obviously LARGER than you got hd, Seems like you guys are just haters!! ;)

Really, just get a hd and be done, its not slowing hte computer down, and IS actually helping!

Ivanmor