Under the Windows folder, locate the Software Distribution sub-folder. Now click on the Windows folder from the C drive as highlighted in the following image: The newly opened File Explorer window is shown in the image below:Ĭlick on the C drive icon as highlighted in the image shown above. Now type file explorer in the search section of your taskbar and click on the search result to launch the file explorer window. In the Services window, click on the Update Orchestrator Service in order to select it and then click on the Stop the Service link as highlighted in the following image in order to stop the updates for a while until you delete the failed updates.

In the Administrative Tools window, click on the Services folder as highlighted in the image shown below:

The newly opened Control Panel window is shown in the following image:Ĭlick on the Administrative Tools folder as highlighted in the image shown above. Type control panel in the search section of your taskbar and click on the search result to launch the control panel window. In order to delete the failed updates in Windows 10, you will need to perform the following steps: In this article, we will explain the method you can use to delete the failed updates in Windows 10. This way, even the failed updates take up some space on your hard drive. It doesn't care if these updates were installed successfully or failed, it just keeps a log of these updates. Windows 10 keeps a log of all updates that you perform either automatically or manually.

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