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It it safe to delete the "C:\Windows\WinSxS\Temp\PendingDeletes" files?


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I've been trying to make some space on my C: drive without formating it, so I used WinDirStat to check some gigantic files I don't need and have found the "C:\Windows\WinSxS\Temp\PendingDeletes" folder. It is huge (52 GB), full with "$$Deleteme..." files and some of them are even older than my purchase of the computer, so I would like to ask - is it safe to delete them? Please consider that because I usually have between 2 and 9 GB free on my C: disk, I can't get the latest updates, so anytime Windows starts the update, it doesn't finish and gets withdrawn, so I suspect that those files might

 

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