• Langa: Sloppy UI design complicates Win10’s routine disk cleanups

    Posted on October 22, 2018 at 12:02 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Another insightful explainer from Fred:

    It’s a baffling user-interface mistake: When Microsoft spliced some functions from the classic Disk Cleanup app into Win10’s “Storage sense,” they created silliness like this: There are now two separate on-demand disk-cleanup functions, both called Free up space now, both just one level apart within the Storage sense dialogs — but they’re not at all the same, and work very, very differently!

    I’ve seen the dialogs a thousand times, but didn’t recognize the problem until just now.

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