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I think I have the answer, but I'm on vacation tomorrow and don't want to get up early to post a clue! 
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Rat fink! 
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Mantids!
Microsoft = MS
holds worker - ant
499 - ID (Roman numerals)
Bugs - mantids.
Although 499 in Roman numerals should really be CDXCIX I think...
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Well done - too late, unfortunately for me... 
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Shame - if only I'd posted it a few minutes earlier...
(I really only figured it out at the last minute!)
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I thought it was a good one! 
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From the Insider[^]
A big feature of Win 10 is saving disc space by compressing system files?
Hands up who hasn't been doing that since Win '95.
And the *New*, *Improved* recovery/restore option restores the system complete with the files that broke five minutes ago?
Because it saves a bit of disc space to give users a last-resort "FIX IT PLEASE!" option that doesn't actually fix anything?
Hands up anyone who has less than three terabytes storage.
The plot has obviously been lost, again.
Sometimes, you really can't believe what you read.
Our new big thing! Lose the thing that has rescued computers from oblivion to save enough disc space for two movies!
Hey, MS!
0. Get rid of metro!
1. Get rid of the ribbon!
2. Put the Start Menu back!
3. Restore the "save window size and position" option for Explorer., and all the little other stuff that's actually useful, but you dropped from your products in the rush to produce the worst operating system you ever made!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Calm down! Have a drink, have two.
veni bibi saltavi
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You're telling the wrong person.
Tell it to MS. Get them to calm the **** down and stop wasting so much of their energy on stuff that is neither needed nor wanted.
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You forgot the Ranting etiquette[^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 17-Mar-15 8:23am.
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Why are you posting links to foreign-language sites?
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I'll be damned if I know! I'm 100% positive I copied the correct link. Guess Windows 8.1 is playing games with me. Corrected now, though... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Nah. I'll just use the English language.
If anyone doesn't understand it: it's the Interwebs; I won't lose any sleep.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Hands up anyone who has less than three terabytes storage.
In my PC? My hand is up.
Accessible to my PC? 13 or so, haven't counted recently...
0,1, 2, 3 - Agreed!
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ME ME ME
only because a. I can't even fill up 2 terabytes of storage in my home computer so I haven't put in the extra terabyte drive I have in the cupboard.
and at work I have 891GB free in a 1 terabyte drive in my desktop machine but I have access to a 6 terabyte storage server.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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So compressing the system files will make sod all difference, even though you don't have 3TB.
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Hopefully it is a feature that can be turned off.
I can only see it being useful for tablets and phones where the space is limited.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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It is obvious that MS are positioning Windows 10 to run on everything from low-end tablets to high-end machines. While this compression makes only a tiny difference for the high-end machines, a low-end tablet with 16GB of flash storage will have an additional 1.5GB of free storage. This is not a trivial amount!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: While this compression makes only a tiny difference for the high-end machines, a low-end tablet with 16GB of flash storage will have an additional 1.5GB of free storage. This is not a trivial amount!
Don't confuse us with the facts. We want to be mad. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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So i don't need it on my desktop or laptop.
And I certainly don't want to lose the abilities of restore -- which are totally irrelevant to phones, so why are they crippling them?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Hands up anyone who has less than three terabytes storage.
Put's hand up.
Well it kind of depends I guess.
Work laptop only has 250Gb
Home desktop only 500Gb
But I do have 4 nas systems wich totals at a 10Tb.
I make it a rule to never have anything on my desktop that I want to keep, so I only need space for windows & programs.
As to the other points
0: agreed
1: agreed
2: I don't know why everyone hates the new start menu. Yes I would like to be able to have it always open on one screen and all my programs open on another but..., as it is I never use it anyway, I just pin the programs I need to the task bar.
3: agreed
Tom
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: I make it a rule to never have anything on my desktop that I want to keep,
Exactly. I think that's what most people do, nowadays, so all the compression does is take up more flops to compress/decompress the files (granted, that won't matter, 99% of the time).
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My apologies, I think I may have confused you.
I forgot that the word desktop has 2 meanings in English.
I was referring to the physical device, so the PC.
But I guess the rule applies to both, it's never a good idea to keep anything on the (software) desktop, I just take it a step further by transferring it to another physical device (NAS).
Tom
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: I was referring to the physical device, so the PC.
So was I (I only confuse easily if picks and wheelbarrows are involved); I store everything that is not required by the operating system and programs on remote storage.
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