Block windows 10 updates

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  1. gundja

    gundja MDL Junior Member

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    #1 gundja, Aug 28, 2017
    Hi guys , i have got a bunch of notebook with only 40 gb ssd hard disk and i am running win 10 on it.
    The problem is that as from today i noticed that i have got only around 1 gb free space and i am strongly suspecting windows 10 updates filling up the free space. So i have setup to defer windows 10 update such that windows does not automatically download and install latest updates. Anything else should i do guys ?Of course i have not installed a lot of things or other stuffs that have caused the hard disk to fill it up.

    thanks
     
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    #2 mxman2k, Aug 28, 2017
    open This PC
    right click the C drive
    select Properties (bottom of list)
    click Disk Cleanup (it will chug away for a while)
    then click Clean Up System Files button at bottom
    click in the boxes that have have more than zero bytes.

    Then click OK this should remove temporary/old stuff to give you some space back, may not be a huge amount but with such a small ssd it will hopefully gain some space back. :)
     
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    #3 TairikuOkami, Aug 28, 2017
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    #4 Tiger-1, Aug 28, 2017
    Hi mxman2k :D well Dism++ also works fine sorry for beak in your post dude :p oopps in time disabling Hibernation also user can earn some good MB so open cmd @adm type powercfg /h off
     
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    #5 SAM-R, Aug 28, 2017
    Right click Disk Cleanup
    run as Admin.
     
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    #6 rpo, Aug 28, 2017
    Stop the Windows Update service
    Delete the c:\windows\softwaredistribution directory
    Start the Windows Update service (c:\windows\softwaredistribution will be recreated)
     
  7. gundja

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    #7 gundja, Aug 31, 2017 (OP)
    thanks ...as usual nice tips from everyone..
     
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    #8 pisthai, Aug 31, 2017
    Interestingly that no-one come up with the most efficient: Set the Internet to a Metered Connection! That would prevent to download all update from MS!

    To do that changes, open Control Settings, go to Network & Internet, under Status click on Change connection properties and set Set the metered connection to On!
     
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    #9 softfinds, Aug 31, 2017
    Don't use built in tool/utility to get updates in Windows 10, Windows creates lots of problems. Use Windows update Minitool
     
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    #10 s1ave77, Aug 31, 2017
    Although WUMT has it's own GUI, it still uses the Windows Updates System, it's a Frontend not any standalone program :thinking:.
     
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    #11 cbsvitzer, Aug 31, 2017
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    Metered Connecticut is fine, but if you have Outlook 2016 (or 2013) you will get an error:
    Can't send or receive email in Outlook and "Metered Connection Warning" is triggered