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      Cleaning Up Disk Space on Windows
      Posted by Will Kruss on 02 July 2023 09:10 AM

      Read this knowledge base article & know how to clean up disk space on windows & free it by removing outdated updates.

      If your Windows installation is using a lot of disk space for the system, you can easily clean it up and free disk space by removing outdated updates. By default Windows keeps a store of all updates downloaded. Over time this can use a lot of disk space.

      Removing the updates means it's not possible to uninstall updates, but it does free a lot of disk space.

      Windows 2012 R2 and Higher

      To do this open a powershell window and type the command:

      Dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /StartComponentCleanup /resetbase

      This may take a few hours depending on how many outdated updates your system has stored.

      Then type the following commands if you wish to delete any windows update files that have been downloaded:

      net stop wuauserv
      net stop bits
      del c:\windows\SoftwareDistribution /q /s
      net start wuauserv
      net start bits

      For full information see: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2015/02/09/how-to-reduce-the-size-of-the-winsxs-directory-and-free-up-disk-space-on-windows-server-2012-r2-and-windows-8-1-or-do-we-even-need-to/

      Windows 2008 R2

      1. Download and install this hotfix on your system: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42739

      2. Download the powershell script available here: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/CleanMgrexeKB2852386-83d7a1ae to c:\

      3. Open a cmd prompt and type: powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass
      This will allow your powershell to run the script you just downloaded
      Then run the script by typing: c:\cleanup-disk.ps1

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