Windows 10: Why does Disk Clean-up take forever?

Windows 10.10240 on a 40 GB HDD partition - required to make another 7 GB for upgrade to 10.10586. Deleted a few GB of ISO downloads and then ran Disk Clean-up for about 400MB.

So far it has taken about twice as long to do the clean up as it will to complete the upgrade, and it's only 2/3 cleaned.

Tedious to say the least.

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Temporary internet files will not delete

I just want to know why the Disk Clean-Up tool does not delete the temporary internet files?!!!!???

It is up to almost 4GB now. and running the Disk Clean-Up tool does not work!!!!!

This is on both of my computers....

Why can't Microsoft fix this???

 

Disk clean up app

The windows update clean up takes a long time to scan and to delete in disk clean up. If you never did the WU clean up, sit back for a long time for it to complete. And on restart, it may even take longer to complete the clean up.

So does the 2nd scan complete?

Or does it appear it is stuck while scanning or deleting the files?

 

No idea, my takes 2-3 minutes including windows.old.

 

I am glad I am not the only one who finds the native Disk Cleanup taking forever to run.
That is why I use Ccleaner for about 2 years now.

 

Stuck on Windows update cleanup? It runs dism to cleanup WinSxS I think and this takes a while.

 

Disk cleanup on build 10586 is slightly faster.

 

Answer*092: Hard Drives 2 Seagate 500 GBs, Maxtor 300GB, WD160 all rescued from old Sky and NTL STB throwouts.

But seriously see this thread: Answer: Why it can take Disk Cleanup so long