[ltsb, 1809] Storage Sense - Not making sense...

[Koldov]

I have a Windows 10 VM that runs on the server for one application, obviously I haven't given it much in the way of resources and kept everything (RAM, disk space etc.) minimal/default.

 

It recently complained about disk space so I enabled 'Storage Sense' with fairly strict settings (well as much as you can) and delete everything everyday.

 

I've recently looked at the VM and it is complaining again...

 

I've run 'Free up space now' and it has found 8.34GB in Windows Update Clean-up!!!

 

I know this fills up as I don't run 'Storage Sense' on my home PCs as I did some housekeeping at the weekend and one of them had over 40GB in there...

 

But does anyone know why this doesn't get cleaned up automagically?

[Steve21]

Are you staying logged on the VM? It’s a user based setting not computer wide

 

Steve

[Koldov]

Sorry, are you saying that the settings are applied per the individual users preference (as in one user can set it to run everyday and another user can set it to never)... Yeah that adds up now I think about it, that's why there are no real in-depth settings unless you run it manually....

 

Also that it only runs when that user is logged on? So if nobody logs on (or logs on only briefly) it will probably never run no matter what it's set to?

 

I guess it's not worth having it on in that case.... back to scheduled tasks it is then....

Edited June 21, 2023 by Koldov