Is it possible to change win10 interpretation of KB (1024) To the actual 1000?

Klohver

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Just wondering if its possible to change how windows interprets a size. 1024 is actually a kibibyte and not a kilobyte as advertised, and I'm wondering if I can some how edit the OS to read it in actual kilobytes.
 
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I wish the HDD advertising dept would use the correct number.


No you cannot.
 
I already know that. 1000 bytes is a kilobyte 1024 is a kibibyte. I just want windows to calculate everything in actual kilobytes. Obviously that doesn't change the actual physical amount of space on a drive, just how it is measured.
 
Because your pc hardware and os uses binary system and not decimal, humans use decimal to round up storage spaces,but they are thee same, after all its easyer to say 500GB than 465GB that you will see in actual os envirioment
 
I just like thinking of kilo as 1000 and not as 1024. mega as 1000*1000 and giga as 1000*1000*1000. Its just way easier to calculate and much simpler to understand
 


I wish the HDD advertising dept would use the correct number.
 
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The problem only gets more obvious as drives get bigger. Currently we just losing 100's of gb of advertised space, the drives aren't getting any smaller. Eventually it will be tb of space missing. Who is going to sue them for all this wasted money?
 


What wasted money? The drive isn't any smaller. There is nothing 'missing'.
An advertised 1TB drive is 931GB. Just reading 2 different units. Base 10 vs base 2.

You have 'lost' nothing.