Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design
Lurking in the release notes for this month's Patch Tuesday preview is a fix for a world of storage pain being experienced by some unlucky Windows 11 users. At the end of June, Microsoft said: "This update improves disk space usage for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file" to KB5095093, the preview for July's patch Tuesday. The fix addresses a problem in which the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file can keep growing, potentially consuming gigabytes of disk space instead of the expected megaby
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