Technology@lemmy.worldbyAnonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world
10 hours

Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected.

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Personally, I have never seen this many issues with Windows like today. Even way back in the Windows Vista days. Woah, Windows Vista will be 20 years old in November…

If you are forced to still be on Windows 11.

This file can be found in the following directory,

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\CapabilityAccessManager\

Then see if it shows a huge file size.

Windows Latest found that one particular file called “CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal” can use most of your system storage.

If your PC is affected, the safest fix is to install Windows 11 KB5095093 from Windows Update, or wait for the July 2026 Patch Tuesday update, where the fix is expected to roll out automatically.

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    Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected
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    • w w@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Work has rolled everyone over to Windows 11 and I have to agree with many of the other replies. It’s the most half baked OS they’ve released in a really long time. Really idiotic stuff happens… Like the snapshot and calculator tools just randomly refusing to start. And Outlook randomly refuses to recognize certain key inputs for a few minutes at a time (while other running apps continue to work just fine). Just really annoying.

      • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
        1 hour

        Same, I just figure if they want to use windows, then they need to accept all the work impacting problems and stoppages. Just like how they accept the security implications of an all windows network…

        It’s so entrenched though, and the typical user doesn’t know any different there days so it’s all windows and cloud now. I’m not saying there isn’t a place for these things, but it doesn’t have to be the default all the time…

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
        2 hours

        Don’t think it’s just an Outlook thing, same thing happened to me in the file explorer. Weird thing is I opened another explorer window and that worked fine, while at the same time the other window was still unresponsive.

        Just windows 11 failing at windows sometimes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • zatanas@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2 hours

          I too have experienced the funky unresponsive File Explorer bug. A second window worked even while the first was still unresponsive.

      • wunami@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        My scrollwheel input from my mouse will just stop working for a bit in a certain window. But will continue working in a different window.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7 hours

      With the way so many of my (corporate) apps have been behaving lately, I’m convinced they’ve all been using slopcode.

      Just the specific way the apps misbehave is shit I’d never seen before the recent AI bubble.

      • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
        4 hours

        Don’t forget about the large number of layoffs

    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      As someone who has been around since the DOS days, I can tell you that while there has been an uptick in more severe and ridiculous bugs the last few years, we are definitely nowhere even close to MSs worst.
      Really this is just another loop around the old ‘fire everyone with experience and hire cheaper labor’ cycle that they like to do on a regular loop.

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        9 hours

        Literally says “if you are forced to use win 11” but ya saw an opportunity to be sanctimonious and positively leapt upon it.

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7 hours

          Can you imagine the downvotes and likely bans if someone did the equivalent in a Linux thread?

      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9 hours

        The fortunate thing with “windows because of work constraints” is that this is a work problem. Not a me problem.

        • maturelemontree@lemmy.zipEnglish
          9 hours

          Exactly. Sadly I need windows on my laptop for college which is voluntary, so I’m stuck with it until I’m done.

          • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
            4 hours

            You mean voluntary in the sense that college is voluntary? By a similar logic, so is work?

            • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
              9 hours

              I had the same problem when I was in university. My concern with dual booting was if something went wrong, such as a bad windows update borking the bootloader. I didn’t have easy access to a second device and I couldn’t afford downtime during the term. There are also issues around clock sync or bios updates, and if you NEED windows for one course then its a pain to switch back and forth all day. Finally there are the unknown unknowns, I was new to Linux at the time and didn’t know what could go wrong.

              I made do with WSL and switched over when I graduated. Looking back, I probably could have switched much sooner, but I get the concern

              • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
                5 hours

                Your school didn’t have computer labs? Ours had a bunch that were nearly always empty with all the software you would need for every course. I used them just because the screens were more comfortable than a laptop and it was often quiet in there.

              • maturelemontree@lemmy.zipEnglish
                7 hours

                That’s where I was at with it too. I have a desktop which is thankfully Linux and will stay that way, but I figured it was too much effort to have a half Linux/half microslop laptop too. I’ll just suffer with a bad laptop until I finish my degree.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5 hours

        Luckily my work still lets me use Win10 for as long as they give safety updates. Unfortunately for me, it‘s still Windows.

      • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
        7 hours

        I really wanna install Linux on my surface pro X :(

        • Elshender@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6 hours

          Can you not? I’ve installed linux on surface laptops before. Would have thought it’d be the same for their tabtops.

          • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
            1 hour

            Nah, x is the weird Arm based one. I wonder if I could at least donate money or my device for the cause.

            • Elshender@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1 hour

              Darn, I was thinking the Arm processor might have caused it. I think the surface laptop 6 is arm based. I wonder if that’d have the same problem.

            • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
              1 hour

              Same, I felt attacked for a second there.

              • Elshender@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1 hour

                I was genuinely curious! I’d never attack someone randomly online like that.

                Ya idiot.

        • madthumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 hours

          Perhaps read about all the garbage Linux puts out. -They don’t do the testing, QA, or slow roll outs that Windows does.

      • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 hours

        I messed up with one computer. It is a huge server with RAID on Windows 11 and like 100TB’s of storage on it… No way I was going to risk it and accidentally erase the used storage while installing Linux. That is the only one on Windows 11 for me. If it was just 5TB’s or something, I would just get an external hard drive to copy everything. But it is much more than that, not all of the 100TB’s is used though. It has to sit on Windows 11.

        • kalapala@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          9 hours

          Don’t worry. Windows will auto update or update your storage driver and you will loose the data anyway! Good luck while it lasts.

        • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
          7 hours

          Disconnect the drives and insert a new one and install Linux. Then reconnect the drives.

          Or just unplug the SAS cable or whatever, depending on the hardware.

        • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
          9 hours

          That sounds like a problem that you should deal with even if you stay on Windows 😄 Maybe I just enjoy organizing things

            • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
              8 hours

              I do not and so I shouldn’t be one to judge

              Is it data that could be recovered if needed? That’s where my concern is coming from. Not being able to back it up to fix OS issues might mean that you can’t back it up at all

              • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
                8 hours

                Over 60,000 GB’s. As stated, it is all in RAID. Unless I get a giant external one. Which I don’t even know if that exists to buy. It would be super expensive if so.

                • JaumeI@programming.devEnglish
                  6 hours

                  Not talking here about Linux anymore. If you have the data in only one site, and the data is irreplaceable, you have a problem right now. Having it in a RAID gives you some breathing room, but you still should plan and execute a remote backup, somehow. At least for the really critical data. Fire, floods and other phenomena are hard or impossible to predict, and you could lose everything. If it’s not that critical, and you simply don’t want the hassle of moving 60TB, I can really empathize with that.

    • Kory@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6 hours

      Microsoft be like: Storage has gotten very expensive? Hold my beer!

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9 hours

      Vista was not bad. It gets a lot of hate, but Vista SP1 was rock solid. But 7 came shortly after and Vista never had the Aero Snap/Peek stuff and that was game-changing. 7 should have been a Vista service pack. Vista got shafted.

      There were also driver issues, but that’s the fault of lazy vendors. Vista itself was fine, but only just fine.

      I like Windows 11 at work well enough (and I have about 30 years of experience with that platform) but at home I’m a happy post-PC Mac user. Honestly there are a couple things Windows does better, and I’m familiar with the platform. But Microsoft needs to learn how to get out of their own way, and the way of power users.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
        4 hours

        Windows 7 ran well on machines that ran Vista barely usable. Vista deserved the hate it got.

      • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 hours

        One of the problems with Vista was the push for vendors to mark their machines as Vista ready at all costs, where the minimum requirements were way too low, so a lot of people ended up with their first Vista experience being an anemic one, as opposed to one with the right amount of system power.

        Vista was also the first time we saw the UAC elevated privilege pop up which seemed to pop for just the simplest of reasons. Mostly because devs were putting too much of user config in the program files directory, or in the windows system directory. This made it so anytime you changed a user preference the UAC would come and ruin your day. Now we just have the devs shoving everything and anything into %AppData% instead.

        • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
          2 hours

          Yeah, the one and only PC on which I ever used Vista was a comically under powered laptop that my Mum bought. If it was running XP it would have been solid, but alas, it had 512mb RAM and Vista was thiiiirsty.

          • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 minutes

            Yeah that was definitely one of the things I saw when I was a tech support agent for a PC manufacturer, Vista was very ram hungry and the machines that could be labeled “Vista ready” definitely were not ready for the hunger

      • veroxii@aussie.zoneEnglish
        8 hours

        I was there for Windows Me. Even Windows 95 I don’t think people today would believe me how often it blue screened or had to be rebooted. Multiple times per day.

        • zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish
          5 hours

          We used to have LAN parties back in the day with dialup internet.

          We’d need a dedicated machine to just dial up to the internet and share the connection, because that way it could run for a day or more at a time without crashing and kicking everyone off.

          I remember the moment where I realised I could just… plug the modem into my new XP machine now. You could use a computer and share internet and it’d work! For days!

          There’s a reason XP hung on for so long and the previous versions didn’t. XP was the first version of Windows that people felt was good enough and they didn’t need anything more.

          • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
            4 hours

            XP was the first NT-version with a Home Edition. If you’d been running Windows 2000 at home you would’ve felt the same way (XP is basically just 2000 with a facelift, NT 5.0 to NT 5.1) and even NT4 was pretty good (though 2000 was better).

            The 9x series (95, 98, ME) were built on a different kernel and designed specifically for home use and were, in comparison, terrible. ME was especially terrible as they tried to bring plug-and-play to the 9x core without NT’s hardware abstraction layer and shit did not work well.

      • The_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8 hours

        I bought a machine right before 7 launched to replace my XP machine. Vista SP2 was solid by then. I ran it for over a year because it was extremely stable.

        I waited a bit over a year to install 7 on the machine when it’s SP1 came out.

    • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
      6 hours

      Fortunately I don’t have this problem on any of my personal machines because I formatted all my Windows drives and migrated everything to Linux, which has been a far better experience. Running Bazzite on my gaming machine and Mint on my general use laptop. Also SteamOS on my handheld. Would recommend.

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 hours

      An Sqlite write-ahead log file? You can probably flush it manually.