Possible to delete language updates?

[Monsoon]

I have Windows 7 Ultimate.

It's set to download updates, but lets me choose which ones to install.

Well there's nearly a couple dozen language updates that I'm not intending to install, and the only option is to hide the update.

It seems to me that they are still on my computer, since it gives me the option to un-hide those updates.

So is there any way of deleting them from my computer?

This install went from 9gb to 14gb just from the updates!

 

[StalkeR]

Hello there. This thread was solved. Take a look there.

 

[Monsoon]

Well i've already got them hidden.

I want to know how to delete them from my hard drive.

 

[Kari]

They are not on your hard drive. When a language (or more) is installed, it's no longer showing in optional updates.

Windows 7 is available in 35 languages. When you install Seven in your language, the rest i.e. 34 languages are available as optional updates. Check your optional updates; if you have 34 language packs available, there's not a single one installed on your computer therefore nothing to delete. In my case the list of available language packs shows 31 because I have installed Finnish, German and Swedish packs on top of my English Seven.



In other words: That you can see a language pack in Windows Update Optional Updates means that it is not installed on your computer, so there's nothing you need to delete.

Kari

 

[Monsoon]

I'm guessing you've never set your downloads the way I do.

Because I don't think you understand that they are in fact on my computer.

With the setting I use, the entire update downloads to your hard drive.

I know this, because I can uplug my computer from the internet and it will still install the updates.

Thus the reason behind "hiding" the update.

 

[StalkeR]

Take a look this thread. I'm not on Windows 7 ATM to explain with pictures.
http://social.answers.microsoft.com...s/thread/9ac2194d-1665-498d-8571-32e4cce6efa9

 

[Monsoon]

Take a look this thread. I'm not on Windows 7 ATM to explain with pictures.
How to Uninstall Extra Language Packs from Windows 7 RC build 7100

I've already tried that. But unfortunately it only works if the update has been installed.
I'd rather not go ahead and install the language packs, just for the sake of being able to delete them from my hard drive.

 

[Kari]

I'm guessing you've never set your downloads the way I do.

Because I don't think you understand that they are in fact on my computer.

With the setting I use, the entire update downloads to your hard drive.

I know this, because I can uplug my computer from the internet and it will still install the updates.

Thus the reason behind "hiding" the update.

A language pack is not installed on your computer if it's still available as an optional update, therefore there's nothing to uninstall. I know this can now be taken wrong but you can be absolutely sure I know both Windows Update and Language packs!

If you are using some third party update tool you should have mentioned that, and also which tool you are using. It is of course absolutely impossible to know which third party tool you are using, and therefore impossible to say how you can delete some of the downloaded but not installed updates. If you are using Windows Update to update your Windows 7, what I have said earlier is correct: a Language Pack that Windows Update shows as available is most definitely not installed on your computer, you can not uninstall something that has never been installed!

If you have not chosen to download the language packs, they are not on your computer. You are correct in thing though: one of us seems not to understand something essential.

Kari

 

[Monsoon]

It seems clear to me, that the words used in the update window are very specific here:

Download updates, but let me choose whether to install them.

OR

Install updates automatically.

If the updates are not in fact downloaded to my computer in the first option, then Microsoft has used very poor language indeed!

 

[Kari]

I re-read your original post. An important sentence there:

It's set to download updates, but lets me choose which ones to install.

So I assume you are not using any third party updaters like for instance this.

It looks you are using Windows Update normally, using these settings:



If so, then let me try to explain it to you:

• Only important updates are downloaded automatically and installed when you decide to do that, and Recommended updates if you have ticked the checkbox
• The whole page says nothing about optional updates. They are, as the name says, optional. Not a single optional update, including language packs, is downloaded. You need to manually choose to download an optional update
• You have absolutely, most definitely sure no language packs installed on your computer if the optional updates list still shows 34 available languages. In this case you also have absolutely, most definitely no language pack files downloaded and saved in to your computer to wait to be installed.
• Therefore you have absolutely, most definitely no language packs to uninstall nor do you have any language pack files to delete

Please could you confirm if you understand this?

It seems clear to me, that the words used in the update window are very specific here:

Download updates, but let me choose whether to install them.

OR

Install updates automatically.

If the updates are not in fact downloaded to my computer in the first option, then Microsoft has used very poor language indeed!

The language and wording is correct, plain English written so simply even a non-native English speaker as I am has absolutely no problems to understand it. It asks if you want to download the IMPORTANT updates automatically and then install them later. The next question then asks if you want to receive RECOMMENDED UPDATES automatically, too.

IT SAYS NOTHING ABOUT OPTIONAL UPDATES, which you always have to download and install manually.

Kari

 

[Monsoon]

Well then why didn't you just say so?

 

[Monsoon]

Actually, it was the optional update part that I missed.

Thanks!

 

[Monsoon]

There is however a setting which would also download the optional updates,
Right where it says Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates.

As far as the non-english speaking part goes though, i'm not american either.

I'm french.

So english is also my second language.

 

[Monsoon]

The fact that the optional updates don't download automatically, makes it all the more bizarre as far as how much the downloads have added to this install.

It was only 9gb off of the dvd, and it's now up to 14gb.

That's 5gb with barely a few hundred mb accounted for by various small applications i've installed, like a firewall, antivirus, etc.

 

[Kari]

Well then why didn't you just say so?

I resent that remark. My first post in this thread was a valid and correct answer to your question. I can see no reason for this kind of remark, especially when thinking I have done nothing else than trying to explain the thing to you, to show your issue is non-existent.

Read the thread through once more before saying something like that again.

There is however a setting which would also download the optional updates,
Right where it says Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates.

NO THERE IS NOT! Recommended updates and optional updates are two completely different things.

Kari

 

[Monsoon]

That's a joke when someone says "why didn't you say so".
That's something even I as a frenchman "get".

Thanks for the help.

 

[Kari]

You are welcome.