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I tried Disk Cleanup again today. WUC showed 59 MB. Told it to do the cleanup. Ran DC again. Showed 9 MB. Ran DC again. Showed 9 MB. It seems to be unable to clear those last 9 MB on either of my computers (both running Win. 8.1). I'm just living with this problem. I'm unaware of any other...

I did a DC on my Dell desktop computer today. Said 134 MB for WUC. Told it to clear the files. Took > 20 min. Checked DC again. Said 9 MB for WUC. Told it to clear files. Done in seconds. Checked DC again. Still 9 MB in WUC. Conclusion: It is impossible to completely clear the WUC files, but it...

It's been 11 days since the last Windows Update, so I thought I'd try Disk Cleanup again. It takes about 2 min. to do the basic analysis and about 9 more min. to do the 'Cleanup System Files' analysis. It still reported the 9 MB in Windows Update Cleanup. I asked it to clear that. This time it...

Yes, that is my laptop. I'll be disabling one or two Startup programs over the next few days, leaving only a couple enabled (AMD Catalyst Control Center & HP Message Service). I'll try Disk Cleanup again the next time I do maintenance, which is every 3 months or so. (I don't use the laptop...

I had already cleaned everything else I wanted to with Disk Cleaner--don't know how many times I've run it recently. Lately I've just checked the one box to make its work as light as possible for test purposes. Yes, I had seen somewhere that it won't remove some of the update stuff until a week...

Right, I mistakenly thought Ccleaner cleaned up Windows Updates, but I see it doesn't. But softwaredistribution\download contains only 116 KB, not worth fooling with. I now have no idea where are the 9 MB of data that Disk Cleanup, Windows Update Cleanup claims it can recover, but failed to do...

I've never had a problem with Windows Update, except (as described above) when I troubleshoot and fix, it always says it 'fixed the problem'. I tried this on my Dell desktop too, with the same results--always a problem and always fixed. Other people on the web report similar behavior. Update...

Well, I ran them in the order you said 1st and 3d (CSD), not 2nd & 4th (CDS). I have a 300GB drive on my underpowered HP notebook. Chkdsk took about 110 min. (no errors of consequence). Scannow took about 50 min. (no errors). Dism took about 35 min. (no errors of consequence). Then I ran Disk...

OK, will do. In your first post, you first said chkdsk, scannow, dism. Then you said chkdsk, dism, scannow. Now you are saying CSD again, which I assume is indeed the order you want. I'm not going to run any of these until tmw., because the notebook I have is slow as molasses in January.

@Nuccii: Yes, that is the procedure I am using. @jds63: When I do chkdsk, I get 'Cannot lock current drive' and 'Chkdsk cannot run because the vol. is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule ... the next time the system restarts?' Is that what you want me to do? Also, I have...

I'm running 8.1 with all updates on, supposedly. In Control Panel, Troubleshooting, System & Security, Fix Problems with Windows Update, Advanced, Run as Administrator: It says it fixed the problem (whatever that may be). I rerun it. It says it fixed the problem. This goes on ad infinitum. It...

I just checked features of Revo Free vs. Pro on the web, and Forced Uninstall says YES only for the latter. It doesn't show up in the menu bar for the free version that I have. Anyway, I have already deleted the folder using the Safe Boot method described above. That folder, which contained...

Last night I was still able to use Revo Uninstall Pro, but my 30 day trial evidently expired overnight. Revo Free doesn't have the Forced Uninstall option, so I can no longer experiment.

I already have Revo installed on my system. However, I wouldn't want Revo to uninstall Bitdefender, just get rid of that one folder. Is there a way to ensure that Revo will delete only a single file or folder and not uninstall an entire program?

Sorry not to get back till now. Taking these things in order, I was wrong about Superantispyware Superdelete. It really does delete individual files in that folder, but the deleted files showed up until I rebooted. There is a little note in one of Superdelete's windows that a reboot may be...