To save disk space, you can delete or remove Windows.old folder after Windows Upgrade in Windows 10/8/7 using this procedure. Learn how to do it. Ten days after you upgrade to Windows 10, your previous version of Windows will be automatically deleted from your PC. However, if you need to free up disk space, and you’re confident that your files and settings are where you want them to be in Windows 10, you can safely delete it yourself. Jul 05, 2017 Previous Windows installation(s): When you upgrade to a new version of Windows, Windows keeps the old Windows system files around for 10 days. You can then downgrade within those 10 days. After the 10 days, Windows will delete the files to free up disk space–but you can delete them from here immediately. Apr 26, 2017 How to delete old Windows installation files Right-click the Start button. Click Search. Type Disk Cleanup. Right-click Disk Cleanup. Click Run as administrator. Click the dropdown arrow below Drives. Click the drive that holds your Windows installation. Click the checkbox next to.
by Martin Brinkmann on November 16, 2017 in Windows - Last Update: February 26, 2018 - 26 comments
Windows Update works for the most part pretty reliable. It is an automated system of Microsoft's Windows operating system that handles the downloading and installing of updates for the operating system.
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At best, it is a silent service that runs in the background; it may ask you to restart the PC every now and then though as that is still required for many updates, and it sometimes may do so without user interaction.
When you run into issues though with updates, you may spend hours or even days figuring out what is going wrong.
I cannot update one of my PCs to the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update for instance because of a bluescreen that I get whenever I try to do so.
One of the things that you can try when it comes to updates, is to delete downloaded Windows Update files to start over.
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If you suspect that something is wrong with the files, or if you want Windows Update to run a new check for updates to download new versions of updates that were released by Microsoft, then you may find the following tip useful for that.
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If you run Windows Insider builds on a PC for instance, you may skip an already downloaded update to a new build to download a newer build and avoid having to update the system multiple times.
How to delete downloaded Windows Update files
It is thankfully pretty easy to delete all cached update files. This works on all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
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- Open the Start Menu (tap on the Windows-key or click on it).
- Type services.msc.
- Right-click on the result, and select 'run as administrator' from the context menu.
- Locate the Service Windows Update. The services listing is sorted alphabetically by default. Click on name to revert the order so that you don't need to scroll as much.
- Right-click on the service Windows Update and select Stop from the menu.
- Go to C:WINDOWSSoftwareDistributionDownload using Explorer or any third-party file browser. If you navigate to the folder manually, you may need to enable the showing of hidden files first.
- Do so with a click on File > Change folder and search options.
- Go to View, and scroll down until you find 'Hidden files and folders' listed.
- Select 'Show hidden files, folders and drives'.
- Remove the checkmark from 'Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)'.
- Click Apply, then OK.
- Select all files of the folder. The easiest way to do that is to use Ctrl-A while the folder is active.
- Hit the Delete-key on the computer keyboard.
- Windows may need administrator privileges to delete certain files. Select 'do this for all current items' and click continue to grant the permissions.
- Go back to the Services window.
- Right-click on the Windows Update service, and select Start from the list of options.
You can re-run a check for updates once all files have been deleted. Please note that Windows Update will download all updates anew when you clear the update cache. This can lead to Gigabyte large downloads.
Clear the Windows Update cache from the command line
You may purge the Windows Update cache from the command line as well. While you can type the following commands on an elevated command prompt manually, you may create a small batch file as well toautomate the process.
Here is what you need to do:
Remove Windows Update Install Files
- Tap on the Windows-key to bring up the Start Menu.
- Type cmd.exe.
- Hold down the Shift-key and the Ctrl-Key before you select the cmd.exe result. This opens an elevated command prompt.
- Accept the UAC prompt that Windows displays.
- Run the following commands and hit enter after each line:
- net stop wuauserv
- cd %Windir%SoftwareDistribution
- del /f /s /q Download
- net start wuauserv
The commands explained:
- net stop wuauserv -- This stops the Windows Update service.
- cd %Windir%SoftwareDistribution -- Switches to the SoftwareDistribution directory of the Windows installation.
- del /f /s /q Download -- Deletes the Download folder of the SoftwareDistribution directory with
- /f -- force the removal of read-only files.
- /s -- include files in subdirectories.
- /q -- in quiet mode to surpress prompts.
- net start wuauserv -- Starts the Windows Update service.
We have uploaded a batch file to our own server which you may run to execute the commands automatically. You need to right-click on the file and select 'run as administrator' as it requires administrative privileges.
You can download the file with a click on the following link: clear-windows-update-cache.zip
Note that it is supplied as an archive that you do need to extract before you may run it.
Tip: Check out these Windows Update related articles and guides
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