Update Wimboot Installation

I am overseeing several small Win 8.1 Tablets. They used Wimboot to optimize their disks.
When they came out of the box, they had 5.24 GB (of 8.77GB) free. Updating Windows Defender dropped this down to 4.84GB.
The Primary partition says that it is a Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Wim Boot, Primary Partition.
There is a 5.57 GB Recovery partition.
I can create a Recovery USB drive, but there is no option to remove the Recovery partition. Tech support says that that is where the Wimboot file is located and it can't be removed.
After applying major updates, it only had 2 GB free. No apps have been installed. I understand that while the original OS files were stored in the Wimboot partition, any updates to those files are store on the C: drive.
Is there way that I can apply the Windows updates to the Wimboot file and then reset the tablet to the factory configuration so that it will now have all the updates?
I can forsee a time in the near future when all the available disk space is taken up by Windows updates. The only alternative is to use the tablets without applying updates from Microsoft.
Alternatively, can I undo the Wimboot feature and combine the two partitions? I could remove Windows components to minimize the size of the OS and use my Recovery USB stick for system repairs.
Any ideas?

Hi,
As I know, WIMboot is a new feature in Windows 8.1, it can significantly reduce the amount of space used by Windows files, and helps you provide more free space to users.
As shown up in the partition layout with WIMBoot:
The WIM file are stored into a separate “images” partition (just like you would for a recovery image), then use DISM to create pointer files from the standard C: operating system volume into the WIM file. These pointer files are completely transparent,
and Windows knows how to boot the operating system (keeping all the files in the WIM) when configured in this setup. So, in a word, the system boots up uses WIMboot which requires a recovery partition, so you will not able to remove it.
You can find more information about Wimboot in the link below:
Windows Image File Boot (WIMBoot) Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn594399.aspx
http://blogs.windows.com/itpro/2014/04/10/what-is-windows-image-boot-wimboot/
According to your description, the space turns small after applying major updates, from my experience, Windows updates should not take too much space, I suggest you right click the drive, properties, then run disk cleanup tool, then cleanup your unused shadow
copies, restore points, and other file you want to delete, check the result.
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

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