Windows 10 update downloads folder

I wondered if a symbolic link might work. There is no wrong tree it's just people trying to get help where we can. Many of us search bing or google for similar answers and up here. We aren't privy to Microsoft's insider understanding of where the truth lives or otherwise wouldn't be asking for help in the first place. Maybe just simplify your whole answer forum to one ombudsman smart enough to direct traffic to where it's supposed to go for the right answer.

Isn't that what you advertise anyway? Because MSI was designed in almost-prehistoric times, I suppose. And never reworked. Or follow links. For MVP guys here - I understand you don't like to be treated this way. But you make yourselves to be treated like this. I could continue arguing about some crappy aspects of Windows componentization and update aspects - but I won't. I like many others have come across this thread whilst trying to find an answer to a 'real world' non ivory-tower problem.

As a result, we scheduled an update window with the client, then clicked to install the update on the primary online node, Windows Update downloaded the package and started the update. Failed update.

When it then shut down the SQL Cluster service to install the update, it also took down the drive the update had installed to. It's all well and good adopting the condescending attitude of 'it's not a windows update problem', but the touchpoint is the invocation FROM Windows Update.

If Windows Update is invoking windows installer files, it should either be specifying paths to the msiexec installer, or the windows update team should be feeding this back to a central team to raise awareness of a problem. Surely there is a central "architecture team" in Microsoft to ensure all groups are using the same approach, and to catch problems that are affecting multiple packages and operating systems?

The attidude of "contact each vendor and group in Microsoft" is ridiculous. The fix needs to be done by Microsoft, and rolled out using Windows Update! In the real world outside Microsoft, we also have lots of teams and groups. We don't fob off our customers with "we don't look after this" style excuses. Any updates on this? I am having the same issues that Goblin C is experiencing and can't seem to find anything that helps.

This is exactly how I would expect this to all work. The reality is quite different what seems to be happening is the update downloads to the C Drive, unpacks to the E drive shared and then the whole process falls to bits when the server fails over when the system attempts to fail over to another node. This means that we have to remediate these manually. Please can you or somebody in Microsoft take some ownership of this and help us techies out.

I had an issue today that may be related to this. I installed the windows update to my win 10 machine, and it put the temporary files on a RAID partition. On reboot to finish off the update the machine got stuck in a reboot loop and the only fix was pulling the RAID card after which the update was rolled back. His main writing topics include iPhones, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Android, and Photoshop, but he has also written about many other tech topics as well.

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Finally, the last command, net start wuauserv , starts the Windows Update service again. Download the file. Winaero greatly relies on your support.

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Follow him on Telegram , Twitter , and YouTube. Step 6: From the list of applications, right-click Windows Update to select Stop. Remove all the files in the folder. The second method for you to reset Windows updates cache is via Command Prompt. The detailed steps are as follows:. To make the symbolic link we will need to start a command prompt as administrator. Now it is time to start the Windows Update service again. Just liked when we stopped the service: Start the services console with an administrator account and start the services as show below:.

If the service started successfully in the step above it is time to test that Windows Update is working correct after we moved the download location. If there is no error, we can continue to step 7. No that we know that the operation was successful. Remember that this operation also requires administrator rights. How much free disk space on your C: drive this tips will release is hard to say.

The size of the Windows Download folders will be variable depending on how many updates is pending for download.