Regain hard disk space by using Windows Update Cleanup in Windows 7 and 8. Image i. Stockkynny. Disk Cleanups new feature called Windows Update Cleanup is standard in Windows 8 and Windows 8. Windows 7 by an update that was made. October 2. 01. 3. The Windows Update Cleanup. Windows updates that are no longer needed. Ill take a closer look at the Disk Cleanup. Windows Update Cleanup feature. As I do, Ill. give you a little background on the Windows update leftovers that this tool is. Note Disk Cleanup and the Windows Update Cleanup feature works the same. Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8. This article applies to all. Windows versions, though all of the example screen shots are from a Windows. The Win. Sx. S folder. If you used the Windows operating system back in the Windows. WinUpdateCleanupFigF_011614.png' alt='Disk Cleanup Windows 7 Setup Log Files' title='Disk Cleanup Windows 7 Setup Log Files' />DLL Hell. This situation arose when you installed different. Nero 8 Ultra Edition Keygen. Dynamic Link Library DLL files. These duplicate files would. For example, an. application would look for a specific version of a DLL file, but find a newer version. Since the version was different. By the time Windows Vista was introduced, Microsoft solved the problem by creating a new technology called componentization, which. Win. Sx. S folder that allows the operating system to store. DLLs included with the. Win. Sx. S is short for Windows Side by Side and refers to using files with the same name. As things evolved, the Win. Sx. S folder also became the perfect. Windows Update. Microsoft releases a multitude of. In order to. make sure the updates dont cause compatibility problems, all kinds of. Win. Sx. S folder so that everything can continue. Furthermore, many Windows updates are designed such that. While this is a pretty simplified description of the Win. Sx. S. folder, the general idea I want to convey is the Win. Sx. S folder. can grow so large that it takes up a good chunk of hard disk space. The problem. gets compounded by the fact that, because the Win. Sx. S folder is used to store so. For instance, Figure A shows the Win. Sx. S folder on a system. Windows 7 system and then upgraded to Windows 8. The Win. Sx. S folder on this system contains 5. GB of hard disk space. In comparison, one of my. Windows 7 systems has 5. GB of hard disk. space. Figure AThe Win. Wiki How to Free up Hard Disk Space on Windows Vista. Four Methods Disk Cleanup Uninstalling Programs Deleting Shadow Copies and System Restore Points Deleting. Disk Cleanup Windows 7 Setup Log Files' title='Disk Cleanup Windows 7 Setup Log Files' />Sx. S folder can be quite. Click to view a larger version of the image. If you want more technical detail about the origin of componentization. Win. Sx. S folder, you can read this 2. Ask the Core Team blog on the Microsoft Tech. Net site. The Disk Cleanup tool. The Disk Cleanup tool has been around for quite. Microsoft to add the new Windows Update Cleanup feature, which is designed to. Win. Sx. S folder and eliminate waste. Rather than just jumping straight into the Windows Update. Cleanup feature, lets take a closer look at the Disk Cleanup tool as a whole. To launch the Disk Cleanup tool, access the Start. Edit Article wiki How to Free up Disk Space Windows 7 Three Parts Accessing Disk Cleanup Choosing Files to Delete Deleting Unnecessary Files Community QA. Windows 10 is here and maybe its not what you expected. If you already upgraded, you can perform a rollback. And if you havent yet, create a system backup first. We. Menu or the Start Screen and type Disk Cleanup. Once you launch Disk Cleanup. C. Disk Cleanup will begin to analyze the files on your hard. Figure B. Figure BWhen you launch the Disk Cleanup tool, it will calculate how much space youll be able to free up. Once the disk space analysis is complete, youll see the. Disk Cleanup interface Figure C, which essentially contains a. Adjacent to each category youll see the size of. Beneath the list is a number indicating the. Immediately below the list is the description panel, which will provide you with more. The. categories you see in the list will depend on what the Disk Cleanup tool. Figure CThe main feature of the Disk. Cleanup interface is the Files To Delete scrolling list. Table A The most common categories listed in the Disk Cleanup. Category. Description. Download Program Files. Downloaded Program Files are Active. X controls and Java. Internet with you view certain pages. They are temporarily stored in the Downloaded Program Files folder on your hard. Temporary Internet Files. The Temporary Internet Files folder contains webpages. Your personalized settings for. Offline webpages. Offline pages are webpages that are stored on your. Internet. If you. Your personalized settings for webpages will be left. Game News Files. Windows 7 only. The Game News Files facilitate delivery of RSS. Game Library. Game Statistics Files. Windows 7 only. The Game Statistics Files are created to aid. Debug Dump Files. Files created by Windows. Recycle Bin. The Recycle Bin contains files you have deleted from your. Setup Log files. Files created by Windows. System error memory dump files. Remove system error memory dump files. System error minidump files. Remove system error minidump files. Temporary files. Programs sometimes stores temporary information in. TEMP folder. Before a program closes, it usually deleted this information. You can safely delete temporary files that have not been modified in over a. Thumbnails. Windows keeps a copy of all your picture, video. If you delete these thumbnails, they will be automatically recreated as. User file history. Windows stores file versions temporarily on this. File History disk. If you delete. these files, you will lose some file history. Per user archived Windows Error Report. Files used for error reporting and solution checking. Per user queued Windows Error Report. Files used for error reporting and solution. System archived Windows Error Report. Files used for error reporting and solution. System queued Windows Error Report. Files used for error reporting and solution. As you select the various categories in the list, a View. Files button may appear. If it does, you can click it to launch a separate. WindowsFile Explorer window targeted on the location and showing you all the. Keep in mind that the View Files button is not. The Windows Update Cleanup feature. If you refer back to Figure C, youll see that adjacent to. View Files button is a button titled Clean Up System Files. Youll. notice this button is flagged with the User Account Control UAC icon. Depending on your UAC setting, you may see a UAC prompt when you select that. The Clean Up System Files button provides you with. Windows Update Cleanup feature. When you select the Clean Up System Files button, Disk. Cleanup will again display the screen shown in Figure B as it analyzes. When the main Disk Cleanup interface returns, youll find that a new category. Windows Update Cleanup appears in the list Figure D. In. addition, you may find several other new categories. Figure DWindows Update Cleanup appears. Disk Cleanup list. Table B Categories that appear in Disk Cleanup when you select. Clean up system files button. Category. Description. Windows Update Cleanup. Windows keeps copies of all. Windows Update, even after installing newer versions of. You might need to. Device driver packages. Windows keeps copies of all. Windows Update and other. This task will remove. The most current version. Windows Defender. Non critical files used by. Windows Defender. Windows upgrade log files. Windows upgrade log files. Windows installation, upgrade, or servicing. Deleting these files can. Service Pack Backup Files. Windows saves old versions. If you delete the files, you. Windows Update Cleanup only. Disk Cleanup wizard detects Windows updates that. For example, when I ran Disk Cleanups Windows. Update Cleanup feature on a Windows 8. Windows 8 to 8. 1, the Windows Update Cleanup category did not appear in. Disk Cleanup because everything had recently been cleaned up by the Windows 8. When you click OK, Disk Cleanup will prompt you to confirm. Figure E. Figure EDisk Cleanup will prompt you to. Disk Cleanup will then go to work cleaning up all the files.