On my Win 11 Pro machine when I run Storage Sense and select temp files my Windows Update cleanup tick box has gone missing so I seem to have no way to 'clean up' after Windows Updates. I have run Dism and run System File Check. I have run Disk clean up as admin also. Everything else is there but that. Anyone else had that happen on Win 11 ?
I don't have Update Cleanup in Storage/Temp Files, nor do I have that any longer in Admin. Disk Cleanup. Pretty sure I used to have that listing even when there wasn't anything there to clean up. Wow, what happened to it?
Just for extra info I don't have Storage Sense turned on at all. Soon as I click on Storage in Settings it calculates things then I click on Temporary files.
Honestly, I do not get, what people like about this Storage non-Sense. It is just DiskCleanup wrapped in a fancy paper causing a broken functionality as the result. I just cleanup manually. Code: https://github.com/TairikuOokami/Windows/blob/main/Windows%20Cleanup.bat
@TairikuOkami It's not so much about liking Storage Sense, it's just about asking about something which seems to have gone missing from it. I'm not sure why you think that Storage Sense is responsible for WinUpdate clean up going missing from Disk Cleanup . They both worked normally on Win 11 so that's why I asked Wilders members if they see WinUpdate cleanup on their machines now either in Storage Sense or Disk Cleanup. Not everyone wants to use a .bat file to cleanup win updates files when the Operating System has always done it fine (up until now)
Well, people do not have to clean anything, Windows does it automatically, but MS changes settings with an each update for testing purposes and since sometimes updates cause issues, they release silent out of bound updates to fix it. Windows updates always break something, that is an expected norm, even though fixes in those updates are unrelated to it, like desktop icons messed up or etc. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...with-the-latest-windows-11-update/ar-AA1kdZ7G
Regardless of which is your preferred method to clean up your machine, I highly recommend the free HiBit Uninstaller, not only is it safer (as in no FPs when cleaning leftovers) than others such as Revo Uninstaller, but it has 2 tools that I like. 1) It has a Windows Store apps viewer which allows you to select multiple store apps and remove them at once including ones that don't have an uninstall button. 2) It has a Junk Files Cleaner as well where you can select to clean Windows Update files: Please note that if you do clean up Windows update files which are located in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download and ever have any Windows issues where you want to run a system health check / repair such as: Code: Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth It would not complete the process successfully so best if you leave those files alone.
On my system I have Windows Update Cleanup listed in both Storage Sense and Disk Cleanup. Maybe this option is shown only when there is something that can be removed?
Hmm, that would be generous to do. In fact, when KB5032278 was installed a little while ago, the option to clean Windows updates re-appeared in Admin. Disk Cleanup. So that's good. Spoiler
Guys/gals, perhaps you missed this setting - What I think is happening - with this checkbox checked, a scheduled task (SilentCleanup) is invoked and cleanmgr.exe with /autoclean switch is run, even if you have Storage Sense disabled. I also have it disabled, but the task ran today - You can check this by unchecking this box and looking in Task Scheduler again - the task gets Disabled - (The 'Last Run' says that the task is refused, but that is another story - login credentials being the reason). What I don't fully understand is when exactly this task runs and what triggers it as the 'Triggers' tab on it is apparently empty. I say appaently as the registry entries for 'Triggers' are not empty, but I have no way of deciphering that. Without detailed documentation, I would assume daily.
