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My life has become a race between me expanding the size of my Windows 10 VM allocated disks and Windows Update filling them up with system restore points... 
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 I'd assume there's a way to control how many of those it keeps.... or at least I'd hope.
I had an old Ubuntu Linux that backed up every single kernel it updated, after a while... it filled the OS partition.... luckily, it was easy enough to delete the old ones, I never really figured how to make it stop storing so many old versions (it was a Samba share server).
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Albert Holguin wrote: I'd assume there's a way to control how many of those it keeps.... or at least I'd hope.
Well yeah. Stop expanding the space available. It will then automatically delete as many of the oldest restore points as necessary to accommodate the newest. Same as it ever was!
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Pretty sure its not supposed to fill an entire partition by default. Prob has a certain number of backups it tries to save (I.e. based on number of backups and not necessarily on space).
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Quote: same as it ever was
Your fault! Made me think of this[^]
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Ubuntu: sudo apt-get autoremove will trim it to the last 3 or so. Cleans up all sorts of other junk too, and kicks off grub update to tidy up the boot menus.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Didn't know auto remove cleaned that up... Guess I never really gave it much thought though... Like I said, it was an old server with an old Ubuntu, still ran pretty reliably though.
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When do you next come down off the mountain?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Brilliant timing! I was on my way back up the hill when you posted. Not intending to be down again before Christmas, but you never know. Still the same phone number ... 709?
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: Still the same phone number ... 709?
Yes. If yours hasn't changed I have it in my phone.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Richard Deeming wrote: I thought System Restore was turned off by default in W10?
It seems to have been ... er ... restored ... to default on for the system disk. Other disk/partitions remain default off.
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while.
The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else.
Cheers!
Andrés
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it's fine. it's not going to change your life or anything.
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Chris Losinger wrote: it's not going to change your life or anything
Thanks, I figured as much. As long as it doesn't ruin my day (or week)
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I played with it on and off for awhile and finally decided it just didn't offer anything I needed for the little headaches I had to work around. My DEV machine is solid running on Win7. I have "10" confined to a VM where I can use it for testing but I doubt that I'll go to it (at least on that equipment) at all. There's just no features compelling enough to upgrade right now, IMHO.
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You do need to have at least Windows 8 to develop or play with Universal Apps and use the emulator.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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I pondered this question quite a bit a few weeks back when I was upgrading my disk to solid state. I ended up just keeping my Win7 install (dual boots to Linux Mint) because well... it works. I also have a few expensive pieces of software on there that would really piss me off if they didn't work after the switch (notably, Matlab), so why mess with it.
If you don't have anything to lose, you can always back everything up and give it a try. In my case, I was more concerned about improving my boot times... I mostly use Linux nowadays anyway.
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Albert Holguin wrote: (notably, Matlab)
I'm sorry. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Love Matlab! ...great tool for modeling.
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In my opinion, Kate Upton is a great tool for modeling. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Well...... can't argue with that! 
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I agree. I put (avoiding the word upgraded) Win10 on my Vostro 5740. Most noticable issue was that Autocad stopped working reliably. Some other programs refused to start and I got fed up with the automatic updates maxing out my SSD so that I couldn't use the machine.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I wouldn't ditch 7 for 10.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: I wouldn't ditch 7 for 10.
That's been my general recommendation. Ditch 8.x for 10, but not necessarily 7.
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