The next Windows 10 version will feature "reserved storage" and you might not like it

[Redaktion]

The next major Windows 10 release will reserve 7 GB of your device's storage space to avoid failing big updates due to a Windows Update bug. Due to this bug, the system is not checking for enough space before launching after an update. While 7 GB might not be much for most Windows PCs, cheap devices with 32 GB of internal storage will get in trouble.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-next-Windows-10-version-will-feature-reserved-storage-and-you-might-not-like-it.392971.0.html

[TC]

too late, i'm already down to 5GB. :p

[DavidC1]

Windows 8 to 10 is a "lazy" feature. Rather than overhauling the interface to properly accommodate touch devices, they decided to tack on top of it.

Windows 7 is a lazy effort too, but at least it was an advancement.

[Kalev743575]

If i can turn this feature off along with brutally disabling automatic updates, then i could live with that. PROVIDE OPTIONS

[Codrut Nistor]

Exactly. They should provide options, or at least fix for the bug that is the reason for this "feature" which is more like an extension for the bug than a feature. By definition, features should do useful stuff, not circumvent bugs.

[sticky]

I don't know much about the software side, but hasn't Windows always been eating up storage without the user's knowledge? Iirc, there is a command in W10 to to clear storage taken up by residual files.

[Craig Ward]

While the reserved storage could be very annoying for many people if there is no option to disable it, I do want to make a potentially unpopular comment and say that this is probably a good move for Windows security.

While most of us reading this can probably understand why a Windows update has failed because of space, and would know what we could do to fix it, there are a lot of people who have no idea why their Windows update is failing or how they could resolve it.

Ignoring that it is being done because of a bug, it's possibly going to help non-techy people continue to get security updates as they fill their storage drives.

Having said that, I'd want to be able to disable it myself.

[Windows 7 is Forever]

OMG ...!!!  >:D
Windows 10 - 1903 Build is complete disaster that
make me love my Windows 7 even more  :p...!!!!!