Solved Disk Cleanup wont delete 190mb on Windows Update Cleanup

DrSysOp

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• Mar 14, 2025

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I am on Build 26 100. 3476 24H2 It seems when I run Disk Clean up it is not deleting Windows Update Cleanup completely & leaving 190mb.
I have tried this in safe mode & run as administrator as well. I manually deleted contents of c:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder & no dice.
I also tried the DISM from other threads does not complete to 100 % & quits. I am not to concerned but just want to fix this as its annoying.

-Cheers!

 

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Stupsi

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• Mar 14, 2025

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Yeah, that"s a bug in 24H2. It shows that but it's not really there. If you want to clear it though: Go to Start-Terminal as Admin and enter: dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase. Let it finish and then restart--once restarted try disk cleanup again and you should be fine

 

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• Mar 14, 2025

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See if one or more of these links is useful in increasing free space:

How to Delete Windows.old and $Windows.~BT folders in Windows 10

Another good one Shawn I just noticed there's a Windows defender listing on the list 3.77mg :/ But yea Previous windows installation files 8.34gb That

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How to Delete $Windows.~WS folder in Windows 10

What is $Windows.~WS folder and how to delete $Windows.~WS folder in Windows 10

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How to Free Up Drive Space in Windows 10

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DrSysOp

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• Mar 14, 2025

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Stupsi said:

Yeah, that"s a bug in 24H2. It shows that but it's not really there. If you want to clear it though: Go to Start-Terminal as Admin and enter: dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase. Let it finish and then restart--once restarted try disk cleanup again and you should be fine

Click to expand...

Thanks did the trick I do not see it now in disk cleanup. -Cheers!

 

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Stupsi

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• Mar 14, 2025

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Good deal--glad to hear that dism command got it resolved.

 

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Steve C

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• May 16, 2025

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Same bug here. This is just poor software engineeirng. Users should not need to use dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase whoich remove s the option to unistall previous updates.

 

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