Not enough space in my computer for updates
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colincostello
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Not enough space in my computer for updates
I got a message on my laptop the other day. It said there was not enough space left to allow important updates from Microsoft. Yet in checking the space left, I found I had at least 15.5 GBs. This seems more the enough. So whats going on?
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Franklan
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Re: Not enough space in my computer for updates
Copy a large chunk of data on an external disk/usb memory stick, so that you have at least 50gigs free. Once the update ran through, copy that shit back on the hardisk.colincostello wrote: ↑Tue May 13, 2025 2:40 pm I got a message on my laptop the other day. It said there was not enough space left to allow important updates from Microsoft. Yet in checking the space left, I found I had at least 15.5 GBs. This seems more the enough. So whats going on?
One might consider an update as the right time to do a backup anyway.
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Re: Not enough space in my computer for updates
Well it says ( here, https://www.google.com/search?q=how+big ... e&ie=UTF-8 ) that you need about 10 GB free Hard drive space to do a windows update !!!!
You are getting very low on space.
Here from Microsoft, you can see how maybe to free up disk space
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... y%20update.
Basically, try deleting temporary files and anything that you do not need, de-frag your disk, clean your registry, if if are ok with it, reduce the size of the system restore, but this may be bad if your system crashes !!!.
Maybe buy an external SD stick, and move, pics, movies, music and documents to it, to free up storage space, or/and move stuff to a cloud based storage system.
Maybe update your Hard drive/SSD or get a new computer with more space available....
Sorry its work and hassle, but that's part of the price you pay for having a computer
OR try moving to a low space operating system like, ubuntu, but again thats a lot of work and you need to understand what to do.
Guess you could try switching off windows updates, but then your system maybe less safe and you will miss any new features and updates that you get from Microsoft for free
You are getting very low on space.
Here from Microsoft, you can see how maybe to free up disk space
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... y%20update.
Basically, try deleting temporary files and anything that you do not need, de-frag your disk, clean your registry, if if are ok with it, reduce the size of the system restore, but this may be bad if your system crashes !!!.
Maybe buy an external SD stick, and move, pics, movies, music and documents to it, to free up storage space, or/and move stuff to a cloud based storage system.
Maybe update your Hard drive/SSD or get a new computer with more space available....
Sorry its work and hassle, but that's part of the price you pay for having a computer
OR try moving to a low space operating system like, ubuntu, but again thats a lot of work and you need to understand what to do.
Guess you could try switching off windows updates, but then your system maybe less safe and you will miss any new features and updates that you get from Microsoft for free
Re: Not enough space in my computer for updates
Or the price for having windows...
Ubuntu is easy, and there are many official help forums out there. Less virus-prone, too.
And really much more economic...