You might not have enough free space on [C] to run Windows Update cleanup ???
Did you look in Event Viewer to see if there are any errors ?
If you have hibernate turned on, turn it off, at least temporarily.
If you can temporarily move any User data to another drive to free up space, try that.
TFC is a more thorough temp file cleaner, and it's a "portable" program (no installation required).
TFC - Temp File Cleaner by OldTimer - Geeks to Go Forum
Well, I'm glad to say the problem has been finally solved. Indeed there was not enough free space on C:. Luckily disabling hibernation gave enough free space, because I wouldn't have had anything else to remove as the partition already consists basically only of system files. Windows 7 really loves eating up the GBs. Thanks to DavidE and everyone else who were being helpful.
You're welcome and glad to hear it's solved.
Thanks for posting back with how you fixed it.
If you would of posted what I requested in post # 13 & 17 we would of seen that your drive didn't have enough free space. That is why I requested the information.
We don't request information because we can't find something else to do with our lives.
We request information so we can help others.
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I don't know how much free space you have on [C] now, but i would not let my [C] drive get below 20%.
Some other programs may not work when there is not enough free space, such as defrag.
From what i know/remember defrag needs 15% free space.
Consider getting a larger Hard Drive so you can increase the [C] drive space.
Actually, I have read all the threads below (or above) as of 4/12/2016 and should mention this issue has not been saved in my case. This is for 267MB of Windows Update cleanup that are never really cleaned (they always reappear as 'to be cleaned' after cleanup w/ cleanmgr). There is plenty of space on the C drive of course, and this happens on all 4 of my Win 7 64 PC's, which are all very clean.
xcln: based on this
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...b-13f38126c588
I did this - and I freed up about 1.2Gb
* Stop automatic updates
* run cmd as Administrator
* net stop wuauserv
* rename c:\windows\SoftwareDistribution softwaredistribution.old
* net start wuauserv
(at this point verify that the SoftwareDistribution was recreated with a few MBs of space)
* exit
* Restart computer
* As administrator: Remove SoftwareDistribution.old
I hope this helps
this is not a proper answer, removing SoftwareDistribution will cancel the download folder containing windowsupdate packages, that unfortunately (and unproperly) cleanup doesn't remove. They may be dozens of thousands of files.. that will slow down the system. As well in the directory installer there may need manual remove, I do always there, but be careful to remove only updates of windows.. there are all the program's installation packages there, if u remove them it will be very annoying then update, repair or remove that program. Anyway windows will boot next time without problems.
Cleanup is useful because it "repack" files within Winsxs, reducing a lot the space, deleting the old copies of files/packages and taking lot of time recompressing the packages. It's something only it can do, because it involves Windows internal components.
Actually I can't see the remove windowsupdate files in one PC where I run cleanup, in my opinion some files like CBS.log went corrupted, so I stopped the trustinstaller service+windowsupdate and delette something manually. Now windowsupdate is rebuilding all considering what is present in winsxs, it will take a while and I hope it will work after.
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