Remove Windows Installation Files
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To save disk space, you can delete or remove Windows.old folder after Windows Upgrade in Windows 10/8/7 using this procedure. Learn how to do it. Removing the old windows install files to reclaim disk space. Warning you will not be able to go back to the old windows version if you do this.
Hello,
I am running Windows 8.1, and Windows Update has downloaded the Windows 10 setup files.
However, I have chosen not to upgrade to Windows 10 at this point.
I have cancelled my Windows 10 upgrade reservations (I have multiple machines).
However, the Windows 10 setup files are still there. These take up a large amount of space, 6.2GB in the c:$Windows.~BT folder and 681MB in c:WindowsSoftwareDistributionDownload folder (I learned of those folders from other forum threads). This is too much for my smallish SSD and certainly my 24GB Windows tablet.
Also, every day I get a message in the system event log that installation of Windows 10 has failed because of error 0x80240020, which is extra weird since I did not ask for or want to install Windows 10 now.
What is the correct way to reclaim this disk space?
I have tried:
Delete Old Windows Installer Files
- Running disk cleanup on disk C, this does not remove these files.
- Removing the folders listed above by hand. Something that was not easy to do but I did manage in the end (FilExile). But then after a while the files simply reappeared (this appears to be by design, a way to trigger an automatic redownload).
- Looking for this update in the Windows Update screens, to cancel or delete or whatever it. But it does not seem to appear in that list as a regular entry.
Delete Windows Setup Files
So again, I do not wish to upgrade to Windows 10 now, I want to reclaim that disk space used by temporary setup files in c:$Windows.~BT, how do I do that.
Regards,
Sander.