Windows 10 update download folder

This will prevent Windows from re-downloading any updates. From now on whenever Windows Update downloads files, they should be stored in the newly created folder. Browse All iPhone Articles Browse All Mac Articles Do I need one? Browse All Android Articles Browse All Smart Home Articles Customize the Taskbar in Windows Browse All Microsoft Office Articles What Is svchost. Browse All Privacy and Security Articles Browse All Linux Articles Browse All Buying Guides. Best iPhone 13 Pro Case.

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Now, if your gripe is about where the working directory is built, then I'd say you're barking up a tree you'll never climb. If your gripe is about installers that fail to clean-up after themselves, then I'm totally on the climb with you I'm just saying you need to be climbing the right tree. My gripe is actually both because both behaviours are just dumb There are numerous examples where updates need to be kicked off manually and similarly many situations where certain drives should be off limits.

Then to rub salt in the wounds all these temp folders get left behind. That's been like that for 15 years, and software engineers way above the pay grade of either you or I had very distinct reasons for designing that way, I'm quite sure.

As for the failure of certain products to clean up after themselves, I think I've said all that can be said there too. There are ways to address this issue, although I'm hard pressed to understand why "certain drives" should be off limits to a process running in the context of a system administrator anyway who, by definition, has access to all of those drives.

Above my pay grade If you don't understand why we would manually kick off updates then you don't live in a real world which needs to quickly respond to business needs or realign with testing schedules. In fact if you don't understand why drives should be off limits you don't understand anything about enterprise configurations - it's fantastic to attach 10 new servers to the SAN, have them all patched to very specific but different patch levels for testing and find that by morning said array has been shotgunned with literally tens of thousands of files.

Anyway, clearly this is the Micosoft zealots thread and any further discussion is a distinct waste of time as you are not interested in investigating a solution but developing a PR standpoint. Google led me to this den of patronizing MVPs. Like the original poster, I simply wanted an answer to the tech question, not a long thread of pompous rebuke and diatribe about forum catgories and the different flavors of Microsoft setup EXEs. If the question is in the wrong category, just move the question thread to the correct category and notify the member silently.

NET Framework 4. BTW, I was compelled to install. NET 4. NET bloatware and probably is not even worth the bother. So, rather than pompous self-aggrandisement "Badges" and "awards"? What is this, grade school? If you cannot do that, just remain silent and spare us from your useless, transparent, self-serving answers for your "badge" points.

I just discovered the reason my Windows Home Server C: was out of space Like the previous poster, I assume there is a registry entry of something I can set to direct Update somewhere other than my intentionally small C: volume.

I wondered if a symbolic link might work. There is no wrong tree it's just people trying to get help where we can. Many of us search bing or google for similar answers and up here. We aren't privy to Microsoft's insider understanding of where the truth lives or otherwise wouldn't be asking for help in the first place.

Maybe just simplify your whole answer forum to one ombudsman smart enough to direct traffic to where it's supposed to go for the right answer. Isn't that what you advertise anyway? Because MSI was designed in almost-prehistoric times, I suppose. And never reworked.

Or follow links. For MVP guys here - I understand you don't like to be treated this way. But you make yourselves to be treated like this. I could continue arguing about some crappy aspects of Windows componentization and update aspects - but I won't. I like many others have come across this thread whilst trying to find an answer to a 'real world' non ivory-tower problem. As a result, we scheduled an update window with the client, then clicked to install the update on the primary online node, Windows Update downloaded the package and started the update.

Failed update. When it then shut down the SQL Cluster service to install the update, it also took down the drive the update had installed to. It's all well and good adopting the condescending attitude of 'it's not a windows update problem', but the touchpoint is the invocation FROM Windows Update.

If Windows Update is invoking windows installer files, it should either be specifying paths to the msiexec installer, or the windows update team should be feeding this back to a central team to raise awareness of a problem. Surely there is a central "architecture team" in Microsoft to ensure all groups are using the same approach, and to catch problems that are affecting multiple packages and operating systems?

The attidude of "contact each vendor and group in Microsoft" is ridiculous. The fix needs to be done by Microsoft, and rolled out using Windows Update! In the real world outside Microsoft, we also have lots of teams and groups.

We don't fob off our customers with "we don't look after this" style excuses. Any updates on this? I am having the same issues that Goblin C is experiencing and can't seem to find anything that helps. This is exactly how I would expect this to all work. The reality is quite different what seems to be happening is the update downloads to the C Drive, unpacks to the E drive shared and then the whole process falls to bits when the server fails over when the system attempts to fail over to another node.

This means that we have to remediate these manually. All installation files for Windows updates are stored here. Step 3: Then, click Disk Clean-up. After that, click the Clean up system files option. Step 5: Press the Windows and R keys at the same time to open the Run dialogue box. Type services. Step 6: From the list of applications, right-click Windows Update to select Stop.

Remove all the files in the folder. The second method for you to reset Windows updates cache is via Command Prompt.