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99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button (media.piefed.social)
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I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

Windows dialogue about failing to eject an USB drive, because an application is using it. Aside of "OK", a new button says "Well why don't you tell them to fuck off♪~"
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

Windows has some other features hiding behind the scenes and bogging the system down when files get changed, like Restore Previous Versions...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/backup-and-restore-with-file-history-7bf065bf-f1ea-0a78-c1cf-7dcf51cc8bfc

I do believe that feature is closely tied with System Restore as well..

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    What? File History is a completely different system. System Restore makes occasional restoration points and is enabled by default, File History needs to be set up to use it. It's disabled by default and Microsoft seems to be actively trying to hide it (try finding it in the Win11 settings screen; you won't find it there) so people use OneDrive to back their stuff up instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Coming from Windows 2003, Vista Ultimate and 7 Ultimate era, Restore Previous Versions was enabled by default, and was a side service of System Restore..

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Right I get what you mean now. "File History" =/= "Previous Versions". But "Previous Versions" has been entirely replaced since Win8, so not entirely relevant.

    It's also completely unrelated to file deletions, because the VSS system both System Restore and Previous Versions use worked on the block-level, and as you already pointed out blocks aren't written to when a file is deleted, it either gets copied over to the recycle bin or just marked as deleted, but neither affect the block contents (VSS works on a CoW principle, blocks are backed up only if written to, but live performance is basically unaffected by this unless you're doing huge loads like big DB modifications or something.

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