Not enough space for windows update

[Carosel43]

Hi Guys

 

My Girlfriend has a small asus laptop with 32gb of on board mmc storage and she just uses it for note taking in classes at uni. I fitted a 500gb mechanical hard drive to it to contain all her stuff and just leave the ssd for booting. There is nothing other than windows and a few small programs that refuse to install elsewhere on the C drive. 

 

The problem is windows has grown so fat it now has not got enough space left to update itself and even after a thorough disk cleaning we dont have enough space for the 1706 (i think its 1706) windows feature update. 

I cant seem to find a way of downloading the update to another location and running it from there. 

 

So, can i download and install from another location, is there another way round, or shall i just give up and clone the drive onto the 500gig hard drive? 

[Sack]

10 minutes ago, Phaytuh said:

Run CCleaner and see if that clears enough space for the update. However that may only be a temporary fix and you'll likely run  out of space shortly after. 

No never use CCleaner, that piece of software has been compromised and has been used as an attack vector, use BleachBit instead of CCleaner. Besides that there's not much you can do with that small space except swapping OS.

[dionkoffie]

open the start menu and search for disk cleanup. See if that helps. 

[Radium_Angel]

32GB systems were never really intended to be used in that way, it was a cheap way to get low spec/priced systems out to the masses. You'd almost be better off nuking it and putting an alt-OS on instead.

Having said that, look in the Windows temp folder, look into (if you haven't already) moving her profile over to the spinner drive, that should free up space

[GoodBytes]

Clear your Download folder, this is usually a common place where people forget to delete things. So sort that out.

 

Then just use Windows Disk Cleanup utility (RIght-click on your C:\ drive, and pick "Properties", then on "Disk Cleanup", it will scan your system, then pick: "Cleanup system files", it will then scan some more, and appear again. Now check all boxes, and click on "OK".

 

Then navigate to the Temp folder (C:\Users\<account name>\AppData (hidden)\Local\Temp), select all files, and hit the Delete key, skip files that it can't delete (as the program that uses them are currently running, those are fine).

 

Then do the same with the system temp folder (C:\Windows\Temp)

 

Empty the recycling bin, and you should be good. If not, look into disabling hibernation, which in turn will remove the hibernation file from the system freeing more space.

 

Under no circumstances you should "clean" your registry.

[Carosel43]

Thanks for the input guys.

 

I have run disk cleanup, got rid of temps, old windows installations, downloads is clean, theres no photos... I will double check I got all the appdata temps though.

 

Literally its just windows and acrobat as it refuses to install anywhere but C:

 

I had the same trouble with my Lenovo 110s that I just have kicking around on the floor (I don't like tablets so use that) but I was, after 3 days, able to coax it into doing the update. Its now got about 9 gig free so if I can just get the blasted update installed it will be fine.

 

 

And Radium_Angel I hear what you are saying but the systems were both sold with windows 10 installed. In my view, 32gb is not fit for purpose if the supplied OS wont fit.

 

 

 

Anyway if all else fails I will clone to the mechanical drive. If the 110s gives trouble I will slap an m2 SSD in there as its got a spare slot. Its annoying though as I only use it for odd things and wanted really cheap. Adding £35 for a 120 gig ssd isn't ideal, I would rather have paid £15 more and got 64gig of mmc from the start.