How to remove debris from Windows Update files | Windows 7

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2021-11-11

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Windows Update is designed to leave installed updates on the local drive of your PC.

Therefore,

The local drive of the PC is compressed in proportion to the number of times Windows Update is executed.

The more updates stored on your PC, the longer it will take to reconcile, so Windows Update will take longer to run.

[Windows Update operation]

Extract the difference by comparing the Windows update file of Microsoft cloud server with the local drive of PC
File to download is decided
Download and installation begins

Organizing the updates stored on your local drive will speed up Windows Update.

This article

We will share the procedure to clean up the Windows Update files accumulated on the PC using the disk cleanup tool attached to Windows.

about Cleanup Tool

Disk Cleanup Tool can remove installed Windows Update files.

The following effects can be expected by executing it.

Hard disk space recovery
Faster Windows Update

Windows keeps a copy of all updates that you install from Windows Update, even after you install the new version of the update.

Running Windows Update cleanup removes old, obsolete updates that take up space (you may have to restart your computer).

Quote: Disk Cleanup Tool description

Timing of execution

Since Windows Update may deliver incomplete files, monitor the operation of the PC for a while after applying Windows Update, and collect information if there are any problems reported on the Internet.

And
If you can determine that there is no problem, Disk Cleanup Tool comes into play.

Notes

After running Disk Cleanup, the old updates will be deleted and you will not be able to roll back.