"Gilgamesh" <gilgamesh@spam.me.not> wrote in message
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> "Dave-UK" <Here@Home.com> wrote in message
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>>>>>> I believe they get amalgamated into the \windows\winsxs folder.
> Which brings us full circle to the OPs question about finding these backup files to which you
> responded they were in the \windows\winsxs folder, but then you said we can't delete the content
> of the folder.
> For the moment lets assume that I know what I'm doing and still want to delete these backups, is
> there anyway of identifying them correctly.
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I said "I believe they get amalgamated into the \windows\winsxs folder."
I don't know for certain that they do as I can't find any definitive info about it.
On Googling it seems some people think the initial download location is:
C
Windows\SoftwareDistribution
There are some update files there on my machine but as the folder sizes are small
I think most updates get moved into winsxs.
I don't know how to identify installed update files.