Hello,
I used to be able to access an option in the Disk Cleanup tool (cleanmgr.exe) to delete old Updates files. Now, the tool merely scans for updates but does not display the appropriate checkbox. My winsxs folder is growing out of control. Installing a couple of recent updates (like 1GB of...
While doing a thorough scan with Malwarebytes I found it slogging through a folder under 'Windows' named 'winsxs'. In it are hundreds of similar files, all beginning "amd64_microsoft. followed by a long string that varies a bit from the previous ones. This is on my HP laptop 64 bit Win 7 machine....
Hello,
I have a lot of files in the folder :
C:\Windows\winsxs\Temp\
Is-it possible to delete files in
C:\Windows\winsxs\Temp\PendingRenames ?
thanks !
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