In the first stage, you should see the button for Clean up system files but you will not see Windows update cleanup in the list during this first stage This is what I observed on my computer today In normal circumstances, disk cleanup runs in two stages if you want to clean up system files and follow through with Windows update cleanup What does each one do? Does one do more than the other? So now the question is: what is the difference between “Clean up system files” and “Windows update cleanup”? I can have one or the other, but not both, in a run of cleanup. (The version of cleanmgr.exe which I have is. I had always run it as an administrator, because I believed that would give more access to things that needed cleaning up. Evidently it runs on two levels, one for ordinary users, and one for administrators. But then it did NOT show “Windows update cleanup” in the list of items to be deleted. ![]() I found that if I ran cleanup with reduced privileges it did indeed show me the “Clean up system files” box. Uninstalling and re-installing that update made no difference.īut Joe’s comment provided the solution. The link at the bottom of that page is actually a link to KB2852386, which I already had, and it does not include cleanmgr.exe in the list of files it changes. With due respect to Jerry, I don’t believe what he says is correct. If you have an older version of cleanmgr, it will update it. Download and run the appropriate file at he bottom of the page in the link. The link in the post is a Microsoft update to cleanmgr. When I run disk cleanup, I do see “Windows update cleanup” in the list of things to delete, but I do NOT see a separate button, lower down, saying “Clean up system files”. It implies that “Clean up system files” and “Windows update cleanup” are mutually exclusive, because it says “If the Windows Update Cleanup option is not displayed on the Disk Cleanup tab, click Clean up system files.” Petero then links to a Microsoft support page which is even more confusing. ![]() One which has the button and another which displays “Windows Update Cleanup” in the list of clean up options.” What are these two versions? I can only find one version of cleanmgr.exe on my system. I checked I had the updated version and discovered that there are two versions of the program. In the link posted by jwitalka, there is a post from Petero which says “I ran the cleanup program but my version didn’t show “Clean up System Files”. I have been through that, but it does not give me “Clean up system files”. Drew1903 recommends using the sageset/sagerun scenario. Thanks for the replies, but not very helpful, unfortunately.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |