Windows update cleanup - why is it taking so long?


  1. rivre
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    Windows 10 64-bit Ver 1909, OS build 18363.535
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    Windows update cleanup - why is it taking so long?


    My hard drive space is low right now due to a project, so I decided to gain a bit back by deleting old windows update files. So I went into disk cleanup and selected clean update files, and it's been doing this slowly for over 90 minutes already. It said there was about 30GB of update files to clean. Why is it taking this long? At this rate it will take all day - the free space is climbing slightly higher every 15 minutes or so. Of course the progress bar is telling me nothing useful as usual.

    Edit: Never mind, it finally completed.
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  3. Masterchiefxx17
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    Windows 10 Professional 64bit
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    It will often finish eventually, however, you could always cancel it and run it again as it can hang on those files.
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