You can now easily fix this issue using the solutions provided in this article. Hopefully, these methods have been helpful to you, and you can now update your Windows 10 computer without encountering any problems. Your email address will not be published. Contents hide. Solution 2: Complete the pending update. Solution 3: Free up space on your hard drive. Solution 4: Remove connected external devices. Solution 5: Run the Windows Update Troubleshooter. Solution 6: Manually download the required update.
Solution 7: Update your drivers. Wrapping Up. Free Scan for PC Issues. Compatible with: Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8. I was looking to clean up a recent XP install on a laptop with a 20GB drive. For a few of the posts there, I was starting to buy into the shpiel by Fred Garvin actually, you might want to goog that version of the name for another laugh and was resigned to just leaving the damn thing until it basically exploded.
Anyways, the one part of his advice I took was that I only deleted the contents of the download folder ten days be danged , and I went out there and deleted some of the other folders mentioned. Everything seems to be running fine. I think the problem was that the guy's attitude blew up on his face. He was offering an option, and for some reason he chose to issue it as some sort of directive.
Anyways, I can't stop laughing after seeing his site. One of the jokers in the office says it was made before the internet. I have been reading various posts on this and, like this thread, there is controversy over the prudence of simply deleting them. Do any of you have any observations on that? It seems related to this thread, but perhaps not. From a clean install of Windows Server R2 Standard, with all updates incl. SP1 installed, it took 15,4 Gb footprint.
So, I got back 4 Gb just by doing these two simple points, falling from 15,4 to 11,4 Gb footprint. FYI ElderJedi, believe it. Net Framework timeframe, you might've seen those tags as well. Just like you may start seeing ARM tags once Win8 ships. At the risk of sounding pedantic, AMD is the one that added the x64 instruction extensions to the x86 chipset, since Intel was off playing with Itanium at the time. When it was clear that the x86 architecture needed bit extensions i.
Now, to bring this back on topic, don't delete those files from your WinSXS folder, especially if you're running a bit machine. Bad things will happen. A senior programmer? A "Senior" would imply someone with knowledge and understanding in their field. I came to this thread to find out some information about the SoftwareDistribution folder and all I found was a bunch of children "member-measuring" in front of each other.
ElderJedi, you resorted to abusing another member on the forum like a child and brought no value to the discussion at all. You talk about. You have a bit processor in your i7 laptop, which is of AMD64 architecture. If I were your employer and read this post, I would be questioning your "senior" position as a programmer, who should know what AMD64 architecture is.
As condescending as Lawrence's post may be, he is right. I couldn't find anything too wrong with anything he stated, as evangelistic as he is. You cannot recommend someone rebuild a server simply because Windows Update doesn't work. That is not and efficient way of thinking, especially when you mentioned the "destruction of data is never the correct answer" in the same breath. When you have a corrupt Windows Update Repository Datastore, sometimes deleting this and allowing Windows Update to repopulate it is the best course of action.
Onto the topic of discussion here. If you are deleting the SoftwareDistribution folder, recreating it and then pushing updates to it and wonder why it's growing If you are worried about space on your system drives, expand them. You are wasting your employers money playing cleanup duties on system drives when you should be solving real problems in your environment.
Sure I may not have added to this forum's topic, but just remember what this forum is "Social. It was never my intent to suggest that somebody should rebuild a server just to repair Windows Update in fact, totally to the contrary. I absolutely agree. I can see this discussion has been going on for a while. I would have hoped someone from Microsoft or with an MS Support contract might have stepped in and cleared up the matter, but alas seems still left to people with although considerable experience, can't absolutely say for sure what to do about all these files.
My main reason for wanting to nuke it is the malware scan is taking forever and I don't see any reason to keep old files that are no longer needed. I'm going to delete everything prior to I hope I will be safe. But the other point is it seems Microsoft is being a bit sloppy in not doing a better job cleaning up after themselves - imho. Full disclosure I'm running a Vista bit circa so I've had some time to build up files. But again, why can't Microsoft clean up after themselves better.
The scans are taking forever to get through what no doubt is mostly garbage at this point. They should put more focus on their core products, OS and office productivity. Their OS's still seem to have some glaring deficiencies.
No, that's not the same issue. The WinSXS folder is a permanent archive and is designed to be that large on a system with years of patches applied. It's why the disk space requirements for the OS are what they are.
ITPros should learn the architecture and operation of the Operating System before becoming a critic. The fact that you're still running a Vista x64 system in speaks much more to the point than I think you may imagine. And how about to delete only particular folder under "SoftwareDistribution", Datastore?
I'm trying to fix wuauclt. If the performance improves, then perhaps, as the MS Answers thread from suggests - it was a defective data store -- however, given that time frame mid and on XP systems, I'm much more inclined to think it was the Office issue. Around that time frame, a number of systems with Office and 8 years of updates applied, and to a lesser extent even today, some Office systems that are approaching 5 years of updates applied, had performance issues because of the number of update packages in the MSI Installer folder.
For those systems the remediation was to uninstall Office or Office and then reinstall Office with the latest service pack, and then apply the remainder of the required Office patches. But not withstanding that possible scenario, the SD folder is merely a cache of what's on the WSUS server relevant to that particular client, so performance issues are almost always an effect of what's on the WSUS server.
You can search this forum for the keyword 'timeout' and find dozens of discussions of this condition. Your observations seem to make a lot of sense, though I don't pretend to fully understand especially the part about WSUS.
I have what I hope are two simple follow-up questions, one related to wuauclt my problem appears to be intense harddrive activity connected with wuauclt and one related to the possible Office reinstall fix. Re wuauclt, you mention in a different post the need to know what version is running. How do I find that out and what minimum version do I want? Does the fact that it says SP3 mean that my problem would likely not be solved by an Office reinstall?
It's logged at service startup in the WindowsUpdate. It can also be determined by checking the file version of the wuaueng. Not at all. In fact, that you are still running Office makes this a high probability condition. The mere fact that Office is still installed on a machine suggests that the Office installation has been in place for several years, inasmuch as most systems built after shipped with Office However, I will grant that some organizations have not upgraded, or are unable to upgrade, and are still using Office because it's all they have.
What's the relevant point is how Office has been updated. Thanks, Lawrence, for the direct and to the point reply. I will follow-up on all the observations you made.
This thread was fun to read. Just wiped 8 GiB worth of junk from there. And surely permissions do not work on any other drive. Others have already summed up your "contributions" nicely above, and since my personal experience with your "advise" coming from the WSUS language packs thread - pretty much exactly mirrors what others have observed on this one - nothing more to add here, sir.
Have a nice day. Found this site when looking for folders i can empty in google. I found it quite interesting to follow you. But noone could say how it will affect the system. After the discussion about WinSXS the idea came up to look in the registry if anything does refer to any of the content in there Im just a regmanipulating nerd. Since i am kid i love to check and manipulate all the files with systeminformation in it, to tune up system manually, free space, as it was in old times with ms dos freeing space in the kb base memory Well, let's hope you're not a financial advisor.
I had to read it again to make sure you really said "condescending" in one breath and "switch to Mac" in the next. Garvin The views expressed on this post are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of SolarWinds. The Windows folder takes up 7. You need to recognize that your personal experience does not reflect the personal experience of everyone else. Thank you for the information that Download content over 10 days old can safely be deleted regardless of whether it is aesthetically pleasing ; I will proceed to do so.
I have a few servers running Windows Server and they are all experiencing greatly diminished disk space in the system partition. I checked the SoftwareDistribution folder on one server and it's topping 2. The Download subfolder contains files dating back to when the server was new. Are you certain this folder is automatically maintained? The system partition is down to 1. Needless to say, but I will be manually cleaning up the Download folder.
The design is for the folder to be automatically maintained. However, it's not unheard of for the datastore to get out of sync with the content cache. As noted previously, anything older than 10 days can be deleted. Following that you should monitor the folder to see if subsequent files get deleted as they should.
If they don't, the datastore may have inconsistencies. An option in this case is to rebuild the datastore. Rename the SoftwareDistribution folder. Copy the old ReportingEvents. Not really sure where you stopped reading, since you didn't quote the message you're actually responding to But never make the mistake of confusing "arrogance" with accuracy, or the right to aggressively defend one's beliefs in those facts.
True, perhaps you don't like the confidence with which I chose to make my points. I accept that. As for "without any explanation" My take was that I explained the basic points several times over. If you feel there's something lacking in any of the above responses, I'm most happy to expand on the subject. I'm blown away by the arrogance of your "answers. To speak in such absolutes without any explanation as to why makes me want to argue with you just because of your arrogance.
I have come across this thread a few times or a similar one with Lawrence stating that it is just wrong to mess with that folder and can usually only get about posts down.
Samuel Mbanaso 15 December - 6 min read. Link copied. Do you like this post? You may also like 5. How to fix InstallShield Error in Windows 10? Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Auslogics Blog. Ad Blocker Detected Ad blockers may interfere with some important blog features, such as comments, images, etc. Got it. The answer is Yes. The Software Distribution folder is a vital component for Windows Update, which temporarily stores files needed to install new updates.
It's safe to clear the content of the said folder because Windows 10 will always re-download and re-created all the necessary file and components, if removed. We always did this as a troubleshooting method if we're having trouble with Windows update. Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.
Run the command net start wuauserv to re-launch the Windows Update Service and net start bits for the Background Intelligent Transfer Service. Renaming the SoftwareDistribution folder allows to quickly check if Windows Update files there are really causing the issue you are trying to resolve. Run the following command to rename SoftwareDistribution folder into SoftwareDistribution. To revert this, you can apply the same procedure afterwards using this command:.
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