Asked Gemini to summarize the investigation:
Windows 11 is a goddamn storage parasite. "System & Reserved" is eating 140GB of my SSD and won't give it back. Explorer says I’ve used 80GB, but the disk is 95% full.
I’ve nuked WinSxS, killed Hibernation, purged Shadow Copies, and cleared every Dell recovery folder in existence, and the OS is still gaslighting me with 60GB of "ghost" bloat that literally doesn't exist in any folder.
The NTFS filesystem is a black hole. Microsoft has built an OS that hides its own fat so well that even Admin PowerShell can't find the files to delete them. Absolute absolute trash.
#Windows11 #Microsoft #TechSupportHell
My girlfriend Windows pc crashed. Drive is full. With “system files”. I don’t see a way to clean it up. She’s finally ready to move to normal OS.
I don’t understand how people can use this shit. I would never take a software engineer seriously if they are on Windows.