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How to Change the Windows 10 Update Download Folder Location
Feb 13, · Introduction. In a previous article, I’ve shown you how to change the location of the Windows updates download folder, using the blogger.com this one, I’m going to do it using Powershell. Remember that you’ll need to have at least two partitions on your computer or two different hard drives for this process to make blogger.comted Reading Time: 1 min Dec 16, · Windows Go to Settings > System > Storage > Change where new content is saved. Choose the default locations for various filetypes. Choose the default locations for various filetypes. It may take some time for files to move from an old path to a new blogger.comted Reading Time: 1 min May 15, · Windows OS doesn’t offer you an option to change the download location of the updates. In this post, we will learn to change Windows 10 Updates download blogger.comted Reading Time: 2 mins
Change windows update download location windows 10
If your computer is running low on free disk space on the local C: drive, but you have a D: drive with plenty of free disk space this tricks might be a good solution for you. This often happens if you have a small SSD drive with a capacity on maybe or GB.
Now you might experience that your get warnings change windows update download location windows 10 your are running low on disk space and maybe you are not able to install new updates to your Windows 10 installation. When you computer run low on free diskspace is begins to run slow. With this trick we can move the Windows 10 updates download folder to another location. Even that your D: drive is not very fast it does not matter much. First you will have to create the folder in the new location on your secondary drive.
Now you will have to stop the Windows Update service in order to change the location. It is not possible to change the download location while the Windows Update service is running. In order to be able to stop the service you will have to be an administrator on your computer. Next step is to rename the current Windows Update download folder. The name is not that important, because we will delete the folder in step 7. A symbolic link is a kind of redirection of a folder location.
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 change windows update download location windows 10, 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. When there is a major upgrade for Windows 10 twice a year this folder will take up many gigabytes of storage.
This example on how to release disk space from the system drive on your computer, change windows update download location windows 10, is just one out of many things you can change windows update download location windows 10. If you are using cloud services, like OneDriveDropbox or Google Drive you might also want to change the default storage location away from your C: Drive. Depending on your configuration these services store cached files to your local hard drive.
There can be many GB to change windows update download location windows 10 on your local system drive by moving these files to another drive. I really loved this method of folder redirection for Windows update. Will it be created automatically or Windows Update will stop working? Hi folowing this process and on running your script suggestion and below mesage comes up.
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Feb 13, · Introduction. In a previous article, I’ve shown you how to change the location of the Windows updates download folder, using the blogger.com this one, I’m going to do it using Powershell. Remember that you’ll need to have at least two partitions on your computer or two different hard drives for this process to make blogger.comted Reading Time: 1 min May 15, · Windows OS doesn’t offer you an option to change the download location of the updates. In this post, we will learn to change Windows 10 Updates download blogger.comted Reading Time: 2 mins Mar 24, · How to change windows 10 updates download location I want to upgrade my windows 10 to a newer build but I haven't enough space on my system drive at all. and I know windows update files downloaded at this location: c:\windows\SoftwareDistribution. so I tried symlink methods to change this location for saving my drive space and able to upgrade
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