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.
I just recently dealt with this on a coworkers pc. No doubt it will balloon back up and require me to remove it again. Theirs was at 96 gb and their drive was 500gb.
They are just “vibe coding” updates now.
And of course, it’s crap.
The new Mac Tahoe OS has a weird bug as well.
The wallpaper extention copies the image/video you want to use into a cache and, if you have a wallpaper that changes, it caches every single image you use. If you’re drawing from a folder that has 100GB worth of images, it will cache 100GB worth of images…and fill up your hard drive. I was drawing from a folder that has 400GB of images, and it was crashing apps because the cache was taking up all my disk space.
I’ve had to stop rotating my wallpaper and go with something really simple, and i really miss being able to use all my images.
I am not affected on my Ubuntu installation
Win95 was trash for a while. ME was always trash. OSX wasn’t great on release. Every Linux distro has had its time in the darkness.
I think 11 is going through some significant structural changes at a faster pace than before, while at the same time the natural greed of capitalism forced MS to get rid of things like large QA teams and support.
If MS were really interested they would begin open sourcing a lot of the things that don’t make them any money (calculator, clock, notepad, UI) and focus on the major items.
Work has rolled everyone over to Windows 11 and I have to agree with many of the other replies. It’s the most half baked OS they’ve released in a really long time. Really idiotic stuff happens… Like the snapshot and calculator tools just randomly refusing to start. And Outlook randomly refuses to recognize certain key inputs for a few minutes at a time (while other running apps continue to work just fine). Just really annoying.
Outlook classic is one of the better examples of a legacy app with tons of integration capabilities that should have been overhauled years ago. The way plugins work is probably related to your issues.
The modern Outlook app is significantly more reliable but has its own quirks that are pretty painful when coming from classic.
Don’t think it’s just an Outlook thing, same thing happened to me in the file explorer. Weird thing is I opened another explorer window and that worked fine, while at the same time the other window was still unresponsive.
Just windows 11 failing at windows sometimes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My scrollwheel input from my mouse will just stop working for a bit in a certain window. But will continue working in a different window.
Hmmm. Let me check to see if I’m affected/infected.
Nope! No windows anymore. All good.
Also on linux myself, but clearly I still have this issue
What do you use, btw
We know it isn’t Arch because they world have already told us.
I was looking for the elusive low key arch user 😂
Mint, Bazzite and Debian
As someone who has been around since the DOS days, I can tell you that while there has been an uptick in more severe and ridiculous bugs the last few years, we are definitely nowhere even close to MSs worst.
Really this is just another loop around the old ‘fire everyone with experience and hire cheaper labor’ cycle that they like to do on a regular loop.With the way so many of my (corporate) apps have been behaving lately, I’m convinced they’ve all been using slopcode.
Just the specific way the apps misbehave is shit I’d never seen before the recent AI bubble.
Binbows back at it again lmfao
Good information. However, the safest fix would be to delete the OS and install literally anything else (https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/). But alas, due to work constraints I understand some are stuck with Windows.
Luckily my work still lets me use Win10 for as long as they give safety updates. Unfortunately for me, it‘s still Windows.
The fortunate thing with “windows because of work constraints” is that this is a work problem. Not a me problem.
I really wanna install Linux on my surface pro X :(
Can you not? I’ve installed linux on surface laptops before. Would have thought it’d be the same for their tabtops.
Nah, x is the weird Arm based one. I wonder if I could at least donate money or my device for the cause.
Darn, I was thinking the Arm processor might have caused it. I think the surface laptop 6 is arm based. I wonder if that’d have the same problem.
Misread the inflection on “Can you not?” and snorted
Same, I felt attacked for a second there.
I was genuinely curious! I’d never attack someone randomly online like that.
Ya idiot.
Perhaps read about all the garbage Linux puts out. -They don’t do the testing, QA, or slow roll outs that Windows does.
It’s kinda scary how they let just any old idiot use the internet.
Lol
Pass me whatever you’re on mate
I messed up with one computer. It is a huge server with RAID on Windows 11 and like 100TB’s of storage on it… No way I was going to risk it and accidentally erase the used storage while installing Linux. That is the only one on Windows 11 for me. If it was just 5TB’s or something, I would just get an external hard drive to copy everything. But it is much more than that, not all of the 100TB’s is used though. It has to sit on Windows 11.
That sounds like a problem that you should deal with even if you stay on Windows 😄 Maybe I just enjoy organizing things
Do you have over 60TB’s of storage that you need like me?
Well, is horse porn a want or a need?
I do not and so I shouldn’t be one to judge
Is it data that could be recovered if needed? That’s where my concern is coming from. Not being able to back it up to fix OS issues might mean that you can’t back it up at all
Over 60,000 GB’s. As stated, it is all in RAID. Unless I get a giant external one. Which I don’t even know if that exists to buy. It would be super expensive if so.
Not talking here about Linux anymore. If you have the data in only one site, and the data is irreplaceable, you have a problem right now. Having it in a RAID gives you some breathing room, but you still should plan and execute a remote backup, somehow. At least for the really critical data. Fire, floods and other phenomena are hard or impossible to predict, and you could lose everything. If it’s not that critical, and you simply don’t want the hassle of moving 60TB, I can really empathize with that.
Glad I’m not affected as I use linux.
An Sqlite write-ahead log file? You can probably flush it manually.
Yea, you can’t just select and delete it, even if you are the Admin. It needs further action.
