Why would it not be necessary to respond to the utter bs you post there? Maybe it's not necessary to post every delusional thought that springs from your mind? We're not on social media.
guys, is there a way at the moment to upgrade to 20h2 without signing in on the insider program? thanks
Can someone tell me all the updates' locations? Disc cleanup often finds files related to updates (sometimes +1 GB) even when the Software Distribution and the LCU folders (the latter inside the servicing folder) are empty.
You're right about the EP. So I edited my original post about that. The EP was retained as we transitioned from 1903 to 1909, and will probably be retained as we transition from 2004 to 20H2. We have had two EPs already and I would prefer that we not have another one. Secondly, some functionality of 19042 is still broken, and I suspect that another CU might be in order for the final release. Enthousiast, I'm just a person that sits behind a PC like you do. Try not to be offended by gobbledygook that comes out of my mouth. It's not gonna harm you.
So it doesn't clean the folders I mentioned (I guess I can keep on cleaning their content since I'll be able to uninstall the updates if I want afterwards and I won't have other problems on WU)? Could you tell me why I shouldn't touch it (it's over 6 GB)? I never understood why are there files and folders with a date modified way before the Windows install, the difference between "Size" and "Size on disk" and why doesn't Windows remember window size and position sometimes, by the way.
To my knowledge, it clears both the directories and the SxS Store (in \Windows\WinSxS). Do not ever touch the Side-by-Side Store! The SxS Store contains all Windows system files and much more, what you see in Windows and System32 is only hard-linked from there. Simply deleting files from the SxS Store will corrupt or even kill the installation. It's all handled by Windows itself, Cleanmgr or Storage Senses can cleanup it in a safe way.
Thanks. I presume Windows grows on size because of that folder. Could you answer the other questions?
Once MS will press the red button. When exactly that will be is still up to speculation. (In other words, nobody knows.)
I've been away in the army and I haven't kept up with the Windows updates and bugs. Last I checked, there was a bug with windows update and disk cleanup. Has it been fixed yet? As a workaround I had to disable "servicing" or whatever it's called.
Size on disk is simply a side effect of the fact the disk is formatted with clusters, usually 4k. So a 3kb file will actually take up 4kb of space, since that's the size of a cluster. I just had a thought though. In NTFS, a very small file can actually take up no clusters, as the contents will be stored along with the file information in the MFT.