Dear Rod,
Thanks for this information. I feel that Windows 10 is still in a state of
flux and changeability. That's one reason I don't yet want to install
Windows 10 on my computer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Hutton via Talk
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 10:03 PM
To: Window-Eyes Discussion List
Cc: Rod Hutton
Subject: Windows 10 1903 Storage Settings can break Window-Eyes
Hi everyone,
I want to alert you to a new feature in Windows 10 1903 which caused me a
great deal of trouble with Window-Eyes until I found the problem and
corrected it.
There is a new feature in Windows 10 1903 called Storage Sense which you can
learn about here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12425/windows-10-free-up-drive-space
The feature is intended to make Windows run better by automatically freeing
up disk space by removing files which Windows decides are no longer
necessary.
Window-Eyes is installed in a folder which is typically reserved for
temporary files, i.e., within the AppData folder for the current user
account.
By default, Windows 10 is configured to remove temporary files, and so
Window-Eyes can easily be broken by Windows 10.
Now, this is usually not a problem on drives which have sufficient available
space.
However, on one of my virtual machines, Windows 10 is installed on a 60 GB
virtual hard drive.
Therefore, on this machine, Windows 10 decided to perform some disk cleanup
and so Window-Eyes threw an error whenever I ran it.
Interestingly, I found the cause of my problem using Narrator, with which I
was able to read notifications from Windows indicating that I had deleted
files, and that I had the option of restoring them.
I thought that I was going crazy since I did not remember deleting any
files.
Remembering past posts on this list from users like Netbat who noted how
files like wineyes.ini can be corrupted, I wondered whether any of my
Window-Eyes files were being corrupted or deleted.
Anyway, I decided to choose the restore files option from the Windows
notification, and, after a reboot, Window-Eyes came back to life.
However, this happy state of affairs didn't last long, since, within a short
period of time, a few minutes in fact, when I restarted Window-Eyes, it
threw an error again.
I'm trying to think back to how I found out that Windows has a quite
aggressive disk space manager built into its most recent version, but I
eventually did.
One of the features of Windows I have been researching recently is OneDrive,
which has been evolving quite remarkably, and it, too, has a feature, called
Files on demand, which is an attempt to deal with the storage space
limitations of newer Windows devices.
The page link I have provided above also has a link to learn about OneDrive.
While Microsoft is certainly doing a lot of work to add features to its
software, you really have to study these settings carefully in order to
benefit from them and avoid problems.
Anyway, at this point I want to suggest that you go into your Windows
settings, search for Storage Sense, and turn off this feature until you have
time to consider its implications for your own system, or at least adjust
the settings in order to prevent Windows making decisions which you don't
want.
I hope this helps you all in your travels. Smile.
Good luck,
Rod
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