By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:20:00 +0000

Patch Tuesdays usually give good things, sometimes crashes, but updates often go to OS database, updates/hotfixes (including superseded or outdated) hog disk space, and what can you do….until THIS month’s October Patch Tuesday! I’m so very glad that this month MS in “Recommended” updates included a new thing called “Windows Update Cleanup”…when installed, it becomes part of your native OS disk cleaner, and will calculate and remove superceded or useless updates! In my Win7, I was thus able to regain 1.20GB of HDD space; I’ve heard from others with XP and otherwise, reporting 3-12GB freed (Windows 8/8.1 get zero to a few MB, likely as newer OS with less patches). The one thing I would note is though the native disk cleaner can now delete updates together with other files, nothing happens until you restart/go to shutdown, at which time Windows will surprise you with “Configuring Windows Updates, Do Not Turn Off Your Computer”. Nice 10-year anniversary gift from MS, and about time!

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By: Dan