{"id":15728,"date":"2018-12-18T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T08:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/?p=15728"},"modified":"2023-08-11T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:09:35","slug":"disk-cleanup-stuck-on-windows-update-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/disk-cleanup-stuck-on-windows-update-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Windows 10 Disk Cleanup Stuck on Windows Update Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facing the issue of Windows 10 Disk Cleanup hangs on Windows Update Cleanup? Here’s how to fix Disk Cleanup stuck on Windows Update Cleanup in Windows 10 PC.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

At least once in the lifetime of a Windows user, they come across any optimization tool which will bear the promise of cleaning junk and temporary files<\/a><\/strong> from their system in order to make the system perform faster and better. <\/span><\/p>\n

More often than not, these PC optimization tools do nothing but waste your time but once in a while, you may actually need to clean up your drive to regain some of your lost space and to do that you would naturally turn towards the inbuilt disk cleanup utility.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what would you do if the Disk Cleanup hangs<\/strong> or freezes Windows 10?\u00a0Well, don’t worry as we are here to help you navigate through the Disk Cleanup stuck issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Many Windows users have reported that when they run Disk Cleanup utility and select the C drive<\/strong> to clean up the System files and check “Windows Update Cleanup<\/strong>” files to delete, the utility gets stuck and does not progress further.<\/p>\n

In the Disk Cleanup<\/strong> tool, the Windows Update Cleanup<\/span> option is available only when the Disk Cleanup wizard detects Windows updates or previous Windows installation files that you do not need on the computer.<\/p>\n

Windows Disk cleanup has been a staple with the newer version of Windows, it was first introduced with Windows 8 and was added to Windows 7 with a Windows update. It is designed to clean out old bits and pieces of past updates which may be eating up space on your disk.<\/span><\/p>\n

I<\/span>n this Windows 10 optimization guide, we will be dealing with the Windows Update Cleanup stuck issue to help you.<\/span><\/p>\n

You might also like to know: How to Delete Junk Files in Windows 10 to Free Up Disk Space<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
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