Looking for:
C windows softwaredistribution download?download???????? |
C windows softwaredistribution download?download????????.windows\softwaredistribution\download folder
C windows softwaredistribution download?download????????.C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download deleting - Microsoft Community
New posts. Search Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. Search Advanced…. More options Toggle width.
Install the app. Ars forum updates are now here! Having trouble logging in? JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter baldursgate2 Start date Jan 9, Jump to latest Follow Reply.
Status Not open for further replies. I've never had a problem deleting the contents of this folder, but I just realized that the disk cleanup wizard, even if I set it to delete Windows Update files, doesn't touch it.
Which makes me think maybe I'm not supposed to either. Has anyone had any issues? More options. It's part of windows update. Deleting that will make your system unable to rollback updates If you really want to delete it, there's a few steps you have to take.
Hat Monster Ars Legatus Legionis. If a future update supercedes an older one such that the older one has to be rolled back, the future update likely won't install. This hasn't happened often, but no guarantee it never will. Skoop Ars Legatus Legionis.
Mine is about 90MB in size. Are you having a disk space problem? DrPizza Well-known member. Patches should get garbage collected and purged after a few weeks automatically. There's no harm in deleting it early, but you shouldn't really need to. The folder doesn't, and isn't supposed to, hold every single patch ever.
It's a temporary staging area. Ardax Ars Legatus Legionis. It's a download cache, nothing more. LorDaMan's link is correct about stopping the Automatic Update service after a clean restart before deleting it, but it has nothing to do with rollback. Generally speaking it's supposed to clean up after itself, but I've seen systems where that wasn't happening for some reason or another.
Nilt Ars Legatus Legionis. Ardax":4egnx7lz said:. Click to expand On my work PC there's only 3 files in it -- the oldest from around Christmas. I've seen individual PCs with anywhere from a handful of files up to several hundred MB spanning years.
Nilt":1ocscc84 said:. Dan2the6th Ars Scholae Palatinae. Skoop":2tr4my9d said:. As I noted above, it hasn't self-deleted on my desktop. How about your PC you guys? Is that folder empty? Skoop"mfbbj3 said:. What I'm going to do is just move this folder to another partition. I'll probably wait a week and see if any errors come up regarding this folder. If no errors I'll delete it or burn it to disk. Thanks, a had the same problem but its gone now. Not exactly positive about 2a-b and not really sure if the Folder will be recreated if deleted but positive about the Contents safe to delete.
Warning to be safe! Best to turn off AutoUpdates first and be sure no Updates are actively installing, delete, then turn updates back on if you wish. Note - If your original install is pre-SP3, then another folder s is created containing the Service Pack s and should also be left alone You need to be a member in order to leave a comment.
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. Windows XP Existing user? Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. ReverseC Posted March 5, Posted March 5, Thanks in advance, Charles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Posted March 6, Dell and Rodney Posted March 6, Jeremy Posted March 6,
No comments:
Post a Comment