Compact OS (Windows optimization CLI utility)

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Compact OS (Windows optimization CLI utility)

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Ever since the 'WinSxS' repository was introduced to Windows, OS footprint rapid storage increase has been a concern for every power user. Not much, short of system re-installation, could be done to really fight it, so the majority just chose to live with it -- after increasing substantially OS disk size allocation.

It also looks like folks have bee getting in trouble while trying to prune down their Windows systems (or cleaning their system registry) with tried and tested tools like CCleaner (http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... .php?t=544) and Privazeer (http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=16952), which makes me hesitant to point to yet another system optimization tool -- one that's CLI only and definitely for advanced users...

Nevertheless Compact OS is an official Microsoft resource aimed at Windows 10 that needs to register on TPFC radars, so here goes.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/hardware/commercialize/manufacture/desktop/compact-os wrote:Compact OS lets you run the operating system from compressed files (similar to WIMBoot in Windows 8.1 Update 1), and single-instancing helps you run your pre-loaded Windows desktop applications in compressed files. The new processes helps maintain a small footprint over time by using individual files, rather than combining them in a WIM file.
Compact OS Ghacks.net review is at http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/28/free-u ... ompact-os/.

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