storage bug

Additional coverage of this story: KB5095093 Fixes Windows 11 24H2/25H2 513GB WAL Storage Bug CyberShack advises checking System storage and installing KB5095093, while warning against disabling Capability Access Manager; it also notes community reports suggesting location access may trigger...

Microsoft’s June 23, 2026 preview update for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 addresses a storage bug in which the hidden CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file could reportedly swell from megabytes into tens, hundreds, and in some cases roughly 500GB on the system drive. The fix, documented...

Microsoft’s June 23, 2026 preview update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 addresses a storage bug in which the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal system file can reportedly balloon into tens, hundreds, or even 500GB on affected PCs. The bug is obscure in name but painfully ordinary in effect: the C...

Microsoft’s June 23, 2026 Windows 11 preview update, KB5095093, fixes a storage bug in which the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal system file can reportedly swell from a few kilobytes or megabytes to tens or hundreds of gigabytes on affected PCs. The failure is not glamorous, but it is exactly the...

Microsoft’s June 2026 optional Windows 11 update quietly fixed a storage bug in which the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file could grow from a tiny permissions log into a disk-eating monster of tens or hundreds of gigabytes. The affected file belongs to Windows’ privacy-permissions machinery...

A Windows 11 storage bug tied to the Capability Access Manager database can cause the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file under C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\CapabilityAccessManager to grow from a normally tiny log into tens, hundreds, and in one widely circulated case more than 500GB, with...

Microsoft’s June 23, 2026 optional Windows 11 preview update, KB5095093, includes a fix for runaway disk usage tied to CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal, a background database log used by the Capability Access Manager service to track app access to privacy-sensitive hardware and permissions. That...