How To Clear Windows Update Cache on Windows 10/11

Update cache is a temporary storage location on a computer where Windows operating system stores updates before installing them.

It helps in improving the installation speed and reliability of updates.

Clearing the Windows update cache removes old update files and downloads fresh update files from the Microsoft server.

And fix if windows update fails to install because of the buggy update file.

Here in this post we have three different ways to dump the Windows update cache.

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Where is the Windows Update cache folder?

The Update Cache is a special folder that stores update installation files.

It is located at the root of your system drive, in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download.

That is most probably error-free, download and install without any problem.

Now, lets restart the BITS, Cryptographic, MSI Installer and the Windows Update Services.

jot down the following commands in the Command Prompt for this.

Press the ENTER key after you key in each command.

jot down Exit in the Command Prompt to close it and then restart the computer.