If you don't tidy up before dinner there'll be no ice-cream for afters. And don't even think about a bedtime story.

After updating to the latest version of the operating system, PC users who tried to delete the 8.63 GB of upgrade data using the Windows Disk Cleanup application found themselves confused as the ...

even after using the Windows 11 Disk Cleanup tool. Microsoft has since clarified that Disk Cleanup may report space available incorrectly when running Windows 11 version 24H2 (Windows 11 2024 Update).

"The update cleanup file is not getting deleted no matter how many times I remove it," one Windows 11 user explains. "I even tried restarting." Using Microsoft's Disk Cleanup tool doesn't seem to ...

Microsoft's full explanation runs as follows: "After using the Windows Disk Cleanup application, it may display an incorrect amount of disk space that can be freed up in the 'Windows Update ...

Microsoft has acknowledged this problem and is currently working on a solution. The problem shows up as a temporary storage file in Disk Cleanup and Storage settings. Despite attempts to remove it ...

“When 'Windows Update Cleanup' is selected and Disk Cleanup is run for the first time, some or all files in that category (for example, 15 GB) are cleaned up correctly and the related disk space ...

In the Windows Release Health notes, Microsoft's developers write that "after using the Windows Disk Cleanup app ... installation of updates and their download by referring to a more recent ...