Don't ask why, but I am required to have Windows 10 for at least three more months, even though I hate Microsoft.
Problem is, I have never updated it. This has caused a problem, as my VPN has stopped working and upon trying to reinstall it, says my version of Windows 10 is too old for the VPN to even install on. I don't want a different VPN.
Upon trying to update Windows:
1. There are more GBs of updates than my entire free space available if I were to delete every file and program I have.
2. The downloads of updates hang when downloading anyway, even with lots of free space for them.
What do?
Is there any way I can select which updates to install, to have the bare essentials? How? Which ones would most be needed to get my VPN to install again?
You can also download the latest version of Windows 10 manually and attempt a manual upgrade.
You should be able to do the manual upgrade if you have about 12GB of free space.
Isaac Campbell
>How much free space do you have left? About 900 mb.
I can't attempt a manual upgrade by reinstalling Windows in any way because the updates are still too big for my hard drive even if it were wiped clean (32 GB hard drive, and even with only 2 GB of my files on it, it only has 900 mb free).
Also there are several partitions that contain different mbs worth of unknown files when I attempt full disk encryption with VeraCrypt. Pic related. If I reinstalled Windows 10 over the main HD partition, would any of the others break or something? What's on the other partitions any way?
Windows 10 is disconnecting and reconnecting my usb device, wtf
Ayden Bailey
That doesn't solve my problem, being that the updates are bigger than the fucking hard drive itself with Windows alone, never mind Linux+VM software.
Logan Lewis
Can't you pick and choose updates to install?
Mason Sanders
install Linux
Kubuntu + KDE PPA + sudo apt-get install linux-lowlatency
Connor Carter
You'd think so, but apparently Microsoft not only removed that feature but made it to where you have to have at least 32 GB of free space for updates. My HD is 32 GB.
Christian White
This is not unusual for a EFI Windows install There is shit like Windows RE, the MSR, a system partition and of course the Windows partition
Tyler Torres
How do I know which ones I can delete without fucking up my computer, assuming I just installed a new Linux OS over Windows (I didn't, but hypothetically)?
Blake Sanchez
Install linux
Michael Brooks
Why do you have so many partitions, if I'm reading this right your HD is actually like 50 gigs
Noah Diaz
it's says partition 3 is your C drive
Grayson Sullivan
It seems to me the only way would be to have an installation drive(usb flash drive) of the latest 1903 win 10. The windows media creation tool should do that. Not sure if a clean install like that easily works on a preconfigured setup, but it would get around the space requirement.
Dylan Garcia
If you update winshit to a newer revision it actually just reinstalls it and keeps the old version as backup, hence the large size.
Bentley Evans
No, I know. But once I install a new OS on C, can I then delete some or all of the other partitions or not? How do I know which ones?
No, you are misreading it, it's 23.1 GB.
Brandon Adams
>23.1 GB. Sorry, 29.1*
Evan Nelson
All can be deleted if you’re wiping windows and installing Linux, they’re all microsoft specific If installing Linux and not dual booting your going to be wiping the whole drive anyway and the whatever distro you’ll be installing, it’s installer will handle it
Sebastian Thompson
>not installing your updates as soon as Mama Microsoft tells you it's dinnertime