Windows 10 Update - Frozen at Downloading 100%

enblethen wrote:
Make sure you do disc cleanup!

I just let Win 10 update on both my laptop and desktop and it ran OK and didn't take near as long as some here report.

I agree with enblethen about disc cleanup with one caveat. After I saw that the Windows update finished and all was well I wanted to do a disk cleanup and get rid of the Windows.old folder that wastes a lot of disk space. I went directly to Disk Cleanup that gets you to this window:


Apparently the above window is not the route to a real disk cleanup in Windows 10 version 1903 (and maybe earlier versions). It doesn't offer deleting the Windows.old folder as an option as it used to. And if you try to just delete the Windows.old folder it fails due to lack of authorization.

After some online searching I found that this is the path to success:

- Go to Settings - System - Storage that will get you to this window in which you should turn Storage Sense on at the top if it is not already on and then click on then click on Configure Storage Sense or run it now.


That will get you to the window below. Here you can configure Storage Sense to your preferences. No option is visible on this image to delete Windows.old because I have already deleted it on my system, but this method works flawlessly when you click on the things you want to clean up including the delete of Windows.old and click on Clean Now.


Hope this helps someone as it was a little frustrating to me until I found this path.