By HLabs
How to remove old updates Windows 7 and 8.1?
A while trying to analyze what happened to the free space on the system search, you notice a very large WinSxS folder. This folder stores the updates, if you want they can be rolled back. Over time they are becoming more folder grows and the free space on the disk, on the contrary, decreases. What to do?
Instruction
In fact, we won't do anything non-standard. We open the properties of the system disk and click disk Cleanup.
The fact that Microsoft acknowledged the problem, and now the removal of old updates available to users with administrator rights. In the disk cleanup, click Clean up system files.
So, without any tricks and external tools we solved the problem of the old updates.
Note
For Windows 7 make sure that the downloaded and installed all the service packs. Cleaning system files added here recently!
If the button Cleanup system files does not appear, then you have nothing to delete.
Useful advice
Try not to follow the advice of other sources that require you to download to clean the WinSxS folder some weird utility or the whole set of optimizers. Better system, no one will cope with the problem.
