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Honey, I shrunk the server! Another chapter, another outdated movie reference. Over the past 20 years or so, we have seen nothing but growth from Microsoft operating systems. Growth can be good; new features and enhancements make our lives easier. But growth can also be bad, such as bloated file structures and memory-hogging graphical interfaces. If you were to chronologically graph the Windows and Windows Server operating systems in terms of their footprints based on factors such as disk space consumption and memory requirements, it would show a steady upward slope. Every new release seems to require just a little more processing power and just a little more hard drive space than the previous version. I always find it intriguing how many critical pieces of the operating system are still hanging around in locations and folders left over from Server 2003 or even earlier. Even on a brand new Windows Server 2022 instance you...
