Mooly

Maybe... I've just updated to this latest Dev build and now get this telling me to right click when I hover although even that is...

@Bree My old test set up running standard release 23H2 on unsupported hardware behaves similar to what you show for the Spotlight...

Not quite normal. That recovery partition contained your only copy of WinRE.wim, an essential component that Macrium requires to be...

Deleting the recovery partition is not the Reason you think you have solved your problem...It was create by Microsoft, not Dell. As it...

I don't know what to say really to that :-) Isn't the 890MB partition the one that contains the recovery environment (WinRE). Is that...

While on the subject of disk space do you ever check here, the WindowsLiveKernelReports folder? It will always report as empty if you...

My windows installs have always steadily increased in size and i put that down to log files getting bigger and just mysteriuos stuff...

That is so true. In fact on this latest install I haven't even run SFC or DISM commands because I suspect half the time you are...

Like you, I don't deliberately store any personal files on any partition on my "system drive". I very rarely install new programs on C...

That's exactly what I'm getting at. It should only have changed minimally but I'll bet in reality it has grown considerably. Unless you...

I thoroughly clean up after each Patch Tuesday, them make my system images. I retain the last three months' images. Mounting all three...

Look at the problem from the other end. Keep tabs on the size of the installation Macrium is backing up rather than just looking at...

Thanks. That goes some way to explaining why it is so 'up and down' at times.

It depends on type of update but most of the time it adds something to system, rarely simplifies. Some feature updates, change...

Thanks for the insight on how all that works. It was just curiosity really.