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What to do with 402 MB of Win Updates ?

2 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/what-to-do-with-402-mb-of-win-updates.67905/

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Dhruv11 Original post #1
Sep 11, 2007 at 3:29 PM
Ok yesterday i updated my windows for the first time. There were like 89 updates downloaded/installed. Now when these updates are installed i dnt knw what to do with almost 402 MB of files in

C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download

Can i delete them n free up the space ? Or they r needed in future too ?

Also now whenever i turn on my pc, it would just kindda stick at WELCOME screen for 1-2 minutes. Used to boot fast before the updates :(
slugger
slugger #2
Sep 11, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Dhruv11 said:
Ok yesterday i updated my windows for the first time. There were like 89 updates downloaded/installed. Now when these updates are installed i dnt knw what to do with almost 402 MB of files in

C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download

Can i delete them n free up the space ? Or they r needed in future too ?

IMHO u can safely delete those files without facin ne issues

but just to b safe, i suggest dat u move dem to a diff location and check it out 4 a couple of day (just 2 b tottaly safe :) )

Dhruv11 said:
Also now whenever i turn on my pc, it would just kindda stick at WELCOME screen for 1-2 minutes. Used to boot fast before the updates :(

its probably u got lotsa services runnin (win2k3 on my comp moves s progress bar 1.5 times :) )

if u not sure which services to safely disable, den check oue Vishal Gupta's thread about this on this very forum