8Gig+ in tracing folder. Really getting annoying.

Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
It's a lot easier to clean install these days with the unofficial sp2
There are essentially 3 updates needed for a clean install of windows that will get you updated through April of 2016

KB3020369 & KB3172605 & KB3125574 all can be downloaded from the M$ catalog using internet explorer
Microsoft Update Catalog

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/...ows-7-and-8-1/
When manually installing updates you need to switch your update settings to Never check for updates and restart the machine first.

After restart you will need to ensure the built in windows update service is stopped and set to manual first too or it will conflict with the stand alone installer.

Afterwards reset the windows updates service to what it was before and update settings to your preference and check for updates
Should be only 50 or so updates left to install.

Sykat. You should be able to delete those files as most of them are text files. The .OLD files are from previous version that you may have updated of changed in the past, so you should be able to delete them as well.

You say that deleting these will give you an extra 8GB of space, but you need to keep in mind that Windows needs at least 10% of free disc space to work properly. 35GB of disc space is just not big enough for Windows. You would well advised to look at getting a much bigger disc, such as a 250GB as an example & then do a fresh install of Windows. If you decide to update the drive, you should seriously consider a SSD.

Sykat. How large is your had drive? You can download EaseUS Partition Master FREE and resize the C:\ partition. If the drive is large enough and you have enough free space. look into it!

I found this specifically for those Firefox files. You need to disable tracing and then you can delete those files. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/971715