Disk Cleanup - Windows Update Cleanup fail

I noticed there are 3.58 GB Windows Update Cleanup files when running Disk Cleanup for OS (C:) recently. The Disk Cleanup option failed to delete these files for some reason. Any suggestion on how to remove these files permanently?



Select "OK" and "Delete Files" will not remove Windows Update Cleanup. I suspect it is related to Adobe Flash.

In addition, the Temporary files was only 388 MB if viewed under Storage in general. However, select and expand Temporary files will reveal the 3.58 GB Windows Update Cleanup files. "Remove files" did not work in this case too.




Version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1679)

jeffreygood said:

I noticed there are 3.58 GB Windows Update Cleanup files when running Disk Cleanup for OS (C:) recently. The Disk Cleanup option failed to delete these files for some reason. Any suggestion on how to remove these files permanently?



Select "OK" and "Delete Files" will not remove Windows Update Cleanup. I suspect it is related to Adobe Flash.

Version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1679)

Try removing them from storage sense.

jeffreygood said:

I tried. It did not seem to work.

have you tried booting into safe mode and using disk cleanup from there?

jeffreygood said:

Tried that too.

Open an elevated command prompt and run this command...

Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

Download treesize from MS Store, any shpuld be able to identify when the 3.58 GB os stored, and then you can boot into winpe, and delete the files.