acer aspire es1 disc space for updates

WESTOVER
WESTOVER Member Posts: 9

Tinkerer

edited August 2023 in 2018 Archives
With a 32 gb disc space and 29 taken up by mostly recovery and windows 10 how on earth do install updates when i dont have enough room
ive tried running apps to a minimum ,  and even removed some acer bloat plus disc clean ups  charles

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  • Sharanji
    Sharanji ACE Posts: 4,328 Pathfinder

    WESTOVER 

    A quick way to add a 32GB or 64GB SD or microSD card  more storage. You can create an icon for the card and keep it on the desktop for quick access. If you have large collections of photos, music, movies etc then you can store them on SD cards. Further, you can now install programs on SD cards, too. 

    Another quickest way to clear space in Windows is to run Microsoft’s built-in Disk Clean-up utility, or an alternative such as CCleaner Free, Microsoft’s Disk Clean-up utility can safely delete hidden system files. Click the button that says “Clean up system files” for the option to delete various files including “Previous Windows Installation(s)”. 

    Next, go back to the Storage page and click on your C: drive. Windows 10 will scan your 32GB and tell you how much space you have free.  

    Though the disk cleanup method basically deletes every insignificant junk files and help regain some disk space, you need a manual deletion of this update installation files, which will definitely release several GBs of storage for you. 

    Step 1. In the search box in Windows 10, type cmd and Command Prompt should appear in the result. Right click on it and choose Run as administrator. 

    Step 2. In the Command Prompt window, type the commands and press Enter after each: 

    net stop wuauserv 
    net stop bits 

    Now follow the path C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution. Open the SoftwareDistribution folder and delete everything inside, not including the folder itself. 

    Step 4. Return to the Command Prompt, now type the other two commands and press Enter after each: 

    net start wuauserv 
    net start bits 

    After those commands fix, you shall try again to download and install the update without being disturbed by not enough disk space issue anymore. 


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  • WESTOVER
    WESTOVER Member Posts: 9

    Tinkerer

    thanks i will work my way through it and get back Just to say i do have a 32gb usb dive that i keep downloads and the odd jpeg 
  • WESTOVER
    WESTOVER Member Posts: 9

    Tinkerer

    Well i managed to get 3gb of space back as per your suggestions and bunged as much as i could on my usb stick The thing is i still get notifications about updates that cant install because it needss 8gb of space That cant be right Then i get a update installer lobbed on my desktop