The primary functions of disk cleanup are removing temporary files that no longer have any purpose and reorganizing the sectors into contiguous blocks (see defragment). THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...
The junk file may be related to "Checkpoint Updates," which were, ironically, created to help make Windows updates smaller and more optimized. Some news outlets suspect the file may actually be ...
Following the Windows 11 2024 Update, some PCs appeared to be unable to delete 8.63GB of files, even after using the Windows 11 Disk Cleanup tool. Microsoft has since clarified that Disk Cleanup ...
The company says that the files have already been removed but that the Windows Disk Cleanup app still incorrectly displays the amount of storage space that can be freed under the ‘Windows Update ...
Windows' native Disk Cleanup utility would continue reporting around 8.63 GB even after scanning and deleting the files. It was speculated that perhaps the new Checkpoint update system was the ...
The undeletable cache issue stems from the "checkpoint update" system, a feature designed to download smaller, incremental patches instead of full updates.
Microsoft has now publicly acknowledged that after the installation of Windows 11 24H2 and a subsequent hard disk clean-up with on-board tools, larger amounts of data that have not been deleted ...