Windows 10 's small volume, big magnanimous

Windows devices are lightweight and highly mobile, so when you need it, you can enjoy the full set of features of the Windows operating system. The Windows Storage and deployment team introduces modern storage APIs, storage awareness, and storage settings to the system, which can serve your phone, tablet, laptop, and desktop, and in Windows 10, they give you a new surprise, System space consumption achieves significant compression.

Increased system compression and reduction capabilities create compactness

Windows 10 employs two independent means to achieve a compact structure. First, Windows 10 uses an efficient compression algorithm to compress system files. Second, the enhancement of the restore capability is freed from the need for a standalone restore image.

In the current development version, Windows can compress system files efficiently. This capability returns approximately 1.5GB of storage space for 32-bit Windows systems, while returning approximately 2.6GB of storage for 64-bit Windows systems. Windows 10 phones can also take advantage of the same efficient compression algorithm and achieve the same range of capacity savings.

We are also re-designing the Windows Refresh and reset feature in order to no longer follow a standalone image (which is usually preinstalled by the manufacturer) and bring the Windows device back to its true nature. This will further reduce the storage footprint of Windows, which is exactly the size of the restore image on a typical device, which is 4GB to 12GB, depending on the specifications and model. Mobile phones already have a solution for optimizing storage space, without compression technology, and compression technology enhancements are only available for tablets, laptops and desktops.

Devices running Windows 10 can provide more free space for photos, videos, and music with these new and enhanced features, as shown below.

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Windows uses compression only when necessary

To ensure that the compressed system files do not negatively affect the responsiveness of the system, Windows will consider many factors when judging whether a device should use compression.

One important factor is the amount of memory (RAM) that a device has. The amount of RAM a device has has determines how frequently it retrieves system files from the storage space. Another important factor is how quickly the decompression algorithm is performed when the CPU of a device retrieves system files. By considering these two factors and some other important factors, Windows can use compression on the premise that a device can respond to the senses without falling.

Because of the diversity of Windows devices, Windows 10 will perform this suitability assessment during the upgrade process. If the compressed system files can return storage capacity without losing the device's responsiveness, the upgrade process will automatically compress Windows 10. The manufacturer performs a suitability assessment for the new Windows device and, more realistically, determines whether to enable system compression.

In compression performance, we have made extensive analysis, and for the first system compression process (known as Wimboot, we will briefly introduce Wimboot later) to make the tuning. The Windows 10 system compression process always takes performance tuning as a must-have, while also enabling better and stronger tuning based on performance data obtained from devices on the market. The increased system compression capability achieved by software means that Windows can constantly adapt to the evolution of the device market.

Windows 10 not only intelligently uses compression to keep system space efficient, but also uses compression to keep store apps occupied as little space as possible. When compressing a system file that acts on a device, it also means that it will be used in the application. With compression, you'll get more room capacity to hold store apps, and store apps themselves will take up less capacity.

In summary, system compression is important for Windows 10 to achieve capacity savings without sacrificing any sensory responsiveness.

Lightweight and efficient restore process

Without having to restore the image separately, the refresh and reset feature replaces reinstalling the operating system, and instead uses the runtime filesystem files in place. This approach not only takes up less disk space, it also means that you no longer have to restore the device and reinstall all the previous update packages for the operating system.

You can restore a device from a critical outage even if Windows no longer requires a separate restore of the image. In Windows 10, you can create your own restore media and back up the original state of the operating system and the software preinstalled in it. If an error condition occurs and you cannot successfully refresh or reset your device, you can use the restore media to boot the device and reset it to the previous initial state.

The streamlined compression of Windows 10 represents the perfect Wimboot

Prior to the advent of Windows 10, Windows 8.1 had significantly reduced space usage with a special deployment configuration technology called Windows Image Boot (wimboot). If you are interested, please use the link given here to access a blog post on Wimboot last year.

Wimboot allows specially prepared Windows 8.1 devices the opportunity to enjoy the full benefits of an efficient compression algorithm while avoiding the impairment of response speed. The so-called "special preparation" means that the manufacturer must adopt another different installation process. The end result is that only a small subset of Windows 8.1 devices really enjoy the benefits of wimboot capacity savings. Windows 10 seamlessly integrates its compression algorithm into the rest of the operating system, thereby minimizing the impact of the installation process. As mentioned earlier, Windows 10 can even compress the operating system during the upgrade process, and only devices that meet applicable standards are considered to be performing compression.

We've been working hard to provide upgrade opportunities for low-volume devices

The fundamental reason why Windows 8.1 devices that use Wimboot technology cannot be upgraded to Windows 10 is that many wimboot devices have extremely limited system storage space. That is, we will encounter challenges when we need to obtain the Windows 8.1 operating system, the download installation image, and the Windows 10 operating system required during the upgrade. The reason we do this is because we need to be able to restore the host to Windows 8.1 when we encounter unexpected issues such as power loss during the upgrade. In summary, the Wimboot device means a capacity challenge during the upgrade process, and we are evaluating a set of alternatives that are designed to find a secure and reliable upgrade path for such devices.

The compact design of Windows 10 will return the storage space to you

The enhanced features of system compression and restore save capacity, which makes Windows devices lightweight and mobile, so when you need it, you can enjoy the full range of features of the Windows operating system.

Windows 10 's small volume, big magnanimous