![]() Windows Update leaves files behind for two important reasons: uninstall functions and system file protection. I realize that not all machines have “today’s drives”, and that for some, seven gigabytes may be more significant than for others, but before we go cleaning things up, we also need to understand that these files are left behind for a reason. ![]() As we’ll also see below, only a fraction of that can actually be cleaned up. Now, I don’t mean to be flip, but on today’s drives, where anything less than a terabyte might be considered “small”, those seven gigabytes account for less than 1% of the total space on the drive, and include much more than just the files that can be removed. ![]() The “WinSxS” (Windows Side-by-side) folder, where duplicate copies of files are left for reasons I’ll explain shortly, accounted for almost exactly half of that. On the random Windows 10 installation I looked into, the size of the c:\Windows folder was 14.5 gigabytes. It really depends on how much you think qualifies as “many”, I guess. ![]() Yes, there’s quite possibly disk space to be had, but not as much as you might think, and not for the reasons you think. This is one of those questions I get from time to time perpetuating myths about Windows Update that I’d like to clear up. ![]() It seems that even when it works, people still aren’t happy with Windows Update. ![]()
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