But I have a 60GB partition for Windows 10 and apps. There's enough space for "servicing", as it was for all the previous Windows versions. The problem here is Microsoft is trying to prevent idiots from being idiots and make the rest of us that can think for ourselves pay for it. It's not a huge deal, but it's quite the annoyance nonetheless. Just give us a toggle, all they need to do, so I can disable it, and get my 7GB back. Edit: for example, we have "powercfg - h off" to get rid of the Hibernation file. Reserve Storage should have something similar. I don't like Hibernate, useless on an SSD, so I turn it off immediately after I install the OS. Just give us the choice.
@toyo I am glad that we have common ground and you have a good understanding of the OP technique in SSDs. As I said, I understand both arguments here, although I tend to go with what @Enthousiast posts in this thread and with Microsoft in a wider sense that the new configuration implemented is a good thing. If for no other reason, just notice everything else that @Enthousiast does in this forum and the huge amount of experience accumulated by him in the process which allows him to have a de-facto authoritative view of most issues related to Windows 10. However, it would be highly desirable that this configuration should be available to the user/admin to disable if needed. The problem is that due to the limitations involved as per https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/reserved-storage-in-windows-10.79347/page-2#post-1514288 the toggle switch would be implemented at setup time and difficult or impossible to implement for a later configuration.
The 7+ GB system reserve (depending on installed features) to ensure smooth update/upgrade deployment is absolutely a good thing for the vast majority of Microsoft's end users. With that said however, most of us here at MDL are not typical end users and some of us are what is known as power users. Now with that said, yeah... there should be an official way for those of us using for example a 500GB properly over provisioned Samsung EVO 860 SSD as a boot drive to disable the reserve, or even better... The OS should be smart enough to see that it is not needed in certain situations and not try and take the reserve in the first place.
That image/quote has some interesting stuff in it. It mentions that as "servicing" occupies room into the hidden Reserve space, the normal OS partition is not affected. That makes it a bit more acceptable. I wonder what exactly would go into it? CUs? I would typically run a Disk Cleanup as admin to get rid of the WU files maybe 2 weeks or so if a CU is proving to be stable. If the CUs won't enlarge the OS install size and remain in the Reserve space, that would mean I no longer have to bother getting back the space. It's not that I need that space, the SSD has like 350GB free, but I might be a bit obsessive compulsive about maintaining the PC "clean". Yawn.
Added to the OP of the 18362.30 thread, section fixes: Offline Fix For Disabling ShippedWithReserves (by REGISTRY) https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/reserved-storage-in-windows-10.79347/page-3#post-1519084 Query To See If It's Enabled or Disabled (by @ch100)
Added some more info to the 18362.30 thread OP: Offline Fix For Disabling ShippedWithReserves (by REGISTRY) https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/reserved-storage-in-windows-10.79347/page-3#post-1519084 Query To See If It's Enabled or Disabled (by @ch100)
Not that it would serve any purpose, but on MDL we just like to go the extra mile and test our limits. Like your attitude!
That'll work if you do it on an earlier version before you upgrade to 1903. But on a clean install of 1903 it won't work, so you have to load and edit a registry hive before install.