WindowsSoftware. Distribution Folder Cleanup Automation. In some cases, I have found that the WINDOWSSoftware. Distribution folder exceeds 5. Nick Douglas. Staff Writer, Lifehacker Nick has been writing online for 11 years at sites like Urlesque, Gawker, the Daily Dot, and Slacktory. TNBA-22-1.jpg' alt='Sand Patch Method Discussion' title='Sand Patch Method Discussion' />Bring Out the GIMP Girls in Merciless Peril may 2010 Archives. Discussion Forum for Extreme Bondage Fantasy Video. DVDs or Web. One month of eight years worth of. Kathak Beats'>Kathak Beats. I am thrilled to be guest posting here today and sharing a tutorial on our new concrete countertops The all important before and after has to come first. Last weeks guest post struck quite a nerve for many of my readers something to the tune of 30,000 views on Facebook, which is a substantial nerve As I read. MB for a system that reports back to the WSUS console as being fully updated with nothing queued to install. As noted, I would recommend a one time removal of any filesfolders from the Download folder that are older than ten calendar days. When the system in question has less than 1 GB of free space, thats a significant issue. Actually, when the SYSVOL has less than 2. However, recovering a few hundred megabytes of space from the WUAgent is like using an eyedropper to fill a bucket. In case you havent noticed, we here at Lifehacker have spent the day gleefully reveling in fullblown Eclipse Madness. But now that the blessed event is behind us. What is the No Poo Method How to Wash Your Hair Without Shampoo Successfully. No Poo Recipes, Tips on Going No Poo Having Beautiful No Poo Hair. I would suggest you focus your efforts on more. TEMP folders browser caches, the windirService. Pack. Files folder, and anything else identified by running the Disk Cleanup Wizard. So it seemed to me that the issue is that, for whatever reason, the update source are not cleaning up after they have been installed. It is evidence that some content has been abandoned. Evidence that a current fault exists would be confirmed by content that is between 1. If the July Patch Tuesday content is still there, or if the August Patch Tuesday content was installed before. WUAgent is not maintaining the current content. Delete the content older than 1. The instances where I have stopped the service, deleted the folder structure and restarted the service significantly reduces the amount of space used by the folder even after performing a detection. Yes, but it has other negative consequences that you have not yet had occasion to notice, including significantly increasing the system resources required to perform update scans, excessive network bandwidth utilization re caching the 1. Data. Store. EDB, and destroying that machines Windows Update History. Fr 7062 Service Manual. So here are my questions. What are the downsides to deleting the Windows Update history Other than being absolutely unnecessary Hard to say. If you NEVER need to refer to that Update History, then the downsides are nil however, if you destroy information you might need at a later time to troubleshoot some other issue, you cant use what you. As long as I retain the log files for the updates WindowsKB. Ironicaly, thats the JUNK you should be deleting Which are all generally useless more than 6. IMO. FYI Im getting pressured to move these folders and log files to another drive, which worries me but thats another discussion. As noted, the KB NTUninstall folders can be safely deleted. I typically remove mine 6. Under what circumstances would source content for an update that has applied successfully need to be retained in the WINDOWSSoftware. Distribution folder As long as it is a VALID i. Not Declined update, it is retained in the Data. Store. EDB so that the WUAgent can continue to report valid stateevent data for that update. If an installed update gets uninstalled, and that update is not in the Data. Store, how. would the WUAgent know that the update was, once again, needed Its really a moot point, though, as you cannot control this. The WUAgent caches update metadata for all relevant updates. That is one of the primary purposes of the Data. Store, along with the. If you destroy the Data. Store, the cache for hundreds, if not thousands of updates must be rebuilt the installation history cannot be rebuilt. Is there an alternative, such as a cleanup tool switch that will allow me to keep this folder content cleanAs Ive already said a properly functioning WUAgent environment SELF MAINTAINS this folder and there is no need to script maintenance activities on this folder. It is a SYSTEM folder and the SYSTEM should be left to manage the folder. If you really want to engage in disk maintenance activities to free up disk space, focus on the USER FOLDERS, which typically in my experiences will yield upwards of 1. Lawrence Garvin, M. S., MCITP EA, MCDBA, MCSA. PrincipalCTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas. Microsoft MVP Software Distribution 2. My MVP Profile http mvp. Lawrence. Garvin. My Blog http onsitechsolutions.