Windows 10: After uninstall disk space didn't freed up

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 didn't free up Space after Uninstall
So, i downloaded Microsoft Flight Simulator from the Xbox Game Pass. I played it for quite some time and decided to uninstall it, i right click the Flight Simulator icon on the Xbox App and clicked Uninstall. It took some time and then the icon disappeared, the icon on the desktop was still there tho'. I manually deleted it and checked my disk space after the uninstall and strangely it didn't free any space on my C: drive where it was installed. I had it installed on C: drive and now i cannot find the files to manually delete them. I've searched each and every folder in C: yet the space doesn't add up. I dont know where these files go after uninstall so if anybody were to know, please help me out. Thanks!

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Deleted Windows.old, not enough disk space freed

1. Did you empty the recycle bin ? If not, empty it.
2. Delete the contents under: C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
   Those are downloaded Windows Updates files and already installed.
3. Open Admin command, copy and paste the line below then run:
   Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
   This should remove all the no longer used by component store. Will take a while to run.

 

Deleted Windows.old, not enough disk space freed


As the title suggests, only 9 gigabytes of disk space appear to have been freed after deleting roughly 18 gigabytes worth of old Windows files via Windows Disk Cleanup. Since the Windows.old folder still exists even after the cleanup, I decided to check the folder properties to see if the folder still took up some space, but it was completely empty, save for a few empty subfolders that I didn't have permission to delete myself. I tried Disk Cleanup a second time, but it did not give me the option to delete old Windows files. Anybody got an answer for me? Please hurry. My poor SSD is suffering. It needs more games.

 

Deleted Windows.old, not enough disk space freed


Thanks for the replies. I did not take any screenshots on my laptop, but I tried this on my desktop with the same results- 18 gigabyte folder, 10 gigs freed. Here are the screenshots from my desktop:





CmmTch, thanks for the link. It didn't quite help me solve this particular issue, but I did find some things that I could move to my external (apple backups, old virtual machine files, etc).