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Disk Cleanup won't delete certain files
Disk Cleanup via Windows settings doesn't delete the checked "Temporary files" (770mb) nor Windows Defender files. All the other checked files do get cleaned up normally. It completes as if it succes...
Thanks for the reply.
I have moved 7 days old files rom the Appdata/Local/Temp folder itself and it disappeared from the Disk Cleanup. However, today 70mb of temp files popped up in Disk Cleanup that I couldn't delete.
I know it's not that much space but I don't get why it simply doesn't work.
No one else who noticed the same thing on his/her Windows 11 device?
Same here ... I have 2.48Gb "Windows Update" files that Disk Cleanup simply refuses to delete. Restart does not help. Running the usual sfc and DISM commands also no help. It's just annoying behaviour (bug I assume) ... it doesn't throw any error ... but the same space allocation shows up immediately after Disk Cleanup completes and you rerun it.
