Personally, I have never seen this many issues with Windows like today. Even way back in the Windows Vista days. Woah, Windows Vista will be 20 years old in November…
If you are forced to still be on Windows 11.
This file can be found in the following directory,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\CapabilityAccessManager\
Then see if it shows a huge file size.
Windows Latest found that one particular file called “CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal” can use most of your system storage.
If your PC is affected, the safest fix is to install Windows 11 KB5095093 from Windows Update, or wait for the July 2026 Patch Tuesday update, where the fix is expected to roll out automatically.
The fortunate thing with “windows because of work constraints” is that this is a work problem. Not a me problem.
Exactly. Sadly I need windows on my laptop for college which is voluntary, so I’m stuck with it until I’m done.
You mean voluntary in the sense that college is voluntary? By a similar logic, so is work?
Dual boot?
I had the same problem when I was in university. My concern with dual booting was if something went wrong, such as a bad windows update borking the bootloader. I didn’t have easy access to a second device and I couldn’t afford downtime during the term. There are also issues around clock sync or bios updates, and if you NEED windows for one course then its a pain to switch back and forth all day. Finally there are the unknown unknowns, I was new to Linux at the time and didn’t know what could go wrong.
I made do with WSL and switched over when I graduated. Looking back, I probably could have switched much sooner, but I get the concern
Your school didn’t have computer labs? Ours had a bunch that were nearly always empty with all the software you would need for every course. I used them just because the screens were more comfortable than a laptop and it was often quiet in there.
That’s where I was at with it too. I have a desktop which is thankfully Linux and will stay that way, but I figured it was too much effort to have a half Linux/half microslop laptop too. I’ll just suffer with a bad laptop until I finish my degree.
VM?