Windows can be very surprising, but usually not in a positive way. The other day, it started to complain that it has not efficient disk space. The first thing you do is to start the automatic cleaning. You would expect that it cleans up all temporary files. But it doesn’t.

There is a little but very powerful tool I am always using when I want to know which folders are so fat and so useless that you really want to get rid of them. It is called TreeSize.  Now, this tool showed me, that my data and documents folder is very huge which is because the application data folder is very huge. The reason for that is that it stores a number of msi files which are completely unnecessary and could be removed after installing the application. Because I work with Java and because I used to use several Java Runtimes, this particular folder stored for each downloaded Java package its msi file. This bloody thing used 500MB of my space. Bloody hell!

So at least I was able to solve this problem for the time beeing. I am pretty sure that there is much more I could delete.

Then, since recently Windows complains that I could plug my external hard drive a much faster USB device. Excuse me? This is the fast USB2.0 device. The astonishing thing is that you plug in your hard drive to the laptop and it runs for 2 minutes correctly. Then Windows decides that this cannot be  so it just changes the protocol or whatever to USB1.1 and pops that message. Why?

I hate Windows. On my Linux PC I have now a tab in the Firefox open which points to Apple. One day, I just get a Mac.