Essentially yes. Or at least that's what I did with BT Homehubs at one stage.
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Essentially yes. Or at least that's what I did with BT Homehubs at one stage.
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
Dunno. But what I do know is that it won't irrevocably break things if you try it and it doesn't work.
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DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
A fix for brave souls who are short on disk space on their Windows drive.
Search for fortinmike / reclaim-disk-space.bat on Github. This MUST be run as administrator, so right-click and choose accordingly.
This is extremely agressive, but will likely get your C drive to below 20GB used. You will be unable to roll back any updates installed before running it.
Again, use with caution. A full system image backup is a really good idea before use if you've even the slightest worry.
This made my netbook usable with Windows 11 and 10. It seems to have given a bit of extra oomph to this laptop also, even though I really didn't need to scrimp on disk space really.
To repeat, do all the required updates you need, then make sure they are all working properly. Then, and only then, run the batch file!
Search for fortinmike / reclaim-disk-space.bat on Github. This MUST be run as administrator, so right-click and choose accordingly.
This is extremely agressive, but will likely get your C drive to below 20GB used. You will be unable to roll back any updates installed before running it.
Again, use with caution. A full system image backup is a really good idea before use if you've even the slightest worry.
This made my netbook usable with Windows 11 and 10. It seems to have given a bit of extra oomph to this laptop also, even though I really didn't need to scrimp on disk space really.
To repeat, do all the required updates you need, then make sure they are all working properly. Then, and only then, run the batch file!
Proto
Legendary Member
- Location
- East Devon/West Dorset
iMac help advice please.
My wife uses a MacBookPro for work, 2017 model running Monterey. She used it when we were travelling in our van and she loves it. However it has it's limitations in my opinion (screen size, no mouse) and I think she'd be better off with a desktop.
So, I've got a spare iMac, 2012, 500GB SSD, 8GB RAM, running Catalina, which is the newest OS it can legitimately take, and I'm suggesting to her that she takes it over, and works with either as and when necessary.
I've read that there's a patch that allows Monterey to be installed on older machines, but that it's obviously unsupported by Apple, and could potentially have problems.
So, couple of questions. Anyone had experience of running Monterey on an unsupported machine, errors, problems, downside, or has it worked well?
Are there any any issues with her working across two machines if they are running different OS's?
Cheers.
My wife uses a MacBookPro for work, 2017 model running Monterey. She used it when we were travelling in our van and she loves it. However it has it's limitations in my opinion (screen size, no mouse) and I think she'd be better off with a desktop.
So, I've got a spare iMac, 2012, 500GB SSD, 8GB RAM, running Catalina, which is the newest OS it can legitimately take, and I'm suggesting to her that she takes it over, and works with either as and when necessary.
I've read that there's a patch that allows Monterey to be installed on older machines, but that it's obviously unsupported by Apple, and could potentially have problems.
So, couple of questions. Anyone had experience of running Monterey on an unsupported machine, errors, problems, downside, or has it worked well?
Are there any any issues with her working across two machines if they are running different OS's?
Cheers.
dutchguylivingintheuk
Über Member
From toying around with installing Macos on Pc's i known the main issue is always hardware, so it might be that some hardware your older Imac has won't be supported in Monterey, i remember they switched from onboard Intel graphics to dedicated graphics at some point for example.
dutchguylivingintheuk
Über Member
Nice collection of scripts saves having to look-up all individual commands
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
.... talking about storage, i have bunged a couple of these in old pc's with sub-320gb old hdd's. Wasn't expecting much, but Windows load up times don't seem that different to 'posh' Samsung pcie SSD in my main machine. No reliability issues either.
https://www.cclonline.com/asu630ss-...MIy_3BuK2e-gIVo4BQBh0xugDtEAQYEyABEgJsBvD_BwE
https://www.cclonline.com/asu630ss-...MIy_3BuK2e-gIVo4BQBh0xugDtEAQYEyABEgJsBvD_BwE
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DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Even today, you can only cram so much down the processor's throat...
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Having deleted every single one of your photos and videos and all your music.
Nope. Those aren't even necessarily on your system partition. The reclaim-diskspace process deletes service back uninstallers, windows rollbacks, images etc. Essentially removing windows stuff that you can live without (usually).
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DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Certainly not on my machines.
pubrunner
Legendary Member
I've a couple of iMacs from 2011/12 - I've put Windows 10 on them and they run very nicely.
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
currently installing the 'big' Win 11 update, fingers crossed 
FishFright
More wheels than sense
currently installing the 'big' Win 11 update, fingers crossed
Having used Windows since 3.1 and never had an update brick my machine I hope to one day bottle the skill and sell it to the unfortunate .
For some reason computers like working with me , even when a power supply let all the smoke out in one go nothing else was damaged !
