Hard-drive space can become a precious commodity, especially if you're using an expensive solid-state drive. However, Windows 7 updates have zero respect for your space, and love to leave update packages hanging around after you're done installing them. That doesn't sound very nice, does it?
Fortunately, there's an easy way to clear out the clutter with tools that are provided in Windows itself (imagine that). While needing to do some extra work to save hard-drive space isn't ideal, at least the option is there. Here's how to clean out old update files, and regain more space for cute kitten GIFs.
Before you get started, make sure you've installed all recent Windows 7 updates.
Remove Windows Installation Files
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. In this guide, we will see how to delete Temporary Windows installation files to free up disk space on a PC running Windows 10. Temporary Windows installation files may not be present on your PC if you recently used a third-party disk cleaning utility or if you recently performed a clean install of Windows 10. Along the same lines as removing items from the Windows component store to save space, we have recently seen a couple of questions come in about the WindowsInstaller directory. This is a hidden system directory; it is used by the Windows Installer service to cache installer data files for various applications. Over time, this directory.
Step 1: Open the Start menu, type cleanmgr in the search box, then hit Enter. Disk Cleanup will ask you where Windows is installed.
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Remove Windows Installer Patch Files
Once it has completed this process, you may have to press the button that says 'Clean up system files.' If you don't see a button, the required options should already be in your list (more on this later).
Step 2: Make sure to check the box next to Windows Update Cleanup and any other files you would like to clean (honestly, all of them) and click OK. Now Disk Cleanup is deleting all of the files for each selection that was made.
(Optional) Step 3: Another option you might want to take advantage of is cleaning out old System Restore files and Shadow Copies. You can do this by clicking on the More Options tab at the top and selecting 'Clean up' under System Restore and Shadow Copies. This deletes all but the most recent of each.
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