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Startups Tech & Work All Topics Sections: Photos Videos All Writers Newsletters Forums Resource Library system queued windows error reporting server 2008 Tech Pro Free Trial Editions: US United States Australia United Kingdom Japan Membership Membership My Profile People Subscriptions My stuff Preferences Send a system queued windows error reporting safe to delete message Log Out Microsoft Regain hard disk space by using Windows Update Cleanup in Windows 7 and 8.x Disk Cleanup's Windows Update Cleanup weeds through the WinSxS folder and eliminates unnecessary files. Learn how to use the http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/is-this-safe-to-delete-windows-queued-windows/23077032-cb83-4fa4-bf2c-4b51d9eccc20 feature in Windows 7 and 8.x. By Greg Shultz | in Windows and Office, January 19, 2014, 12:27 PM PST RSS Comments Facebook Linkedin Twitter More Email Print Reddit Delicious Digg Pinterest Stumbleupon Google Plus Image: iStock/kynny Disk Cleanup's new feature called Windows Update Cleanup is standard in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 and was added to Windows 7 by an update that was made available in October 2013. The Windows Update Cleanup feature is http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/regain-hard-disk-space-by-using-windows-update-cleanup-in-windows-7-and-8x/ designed to help you to regain valuable hard disk space by removing bits and pieces of old Windows updates that are no longer needed. I'll take a closer look at the Disk Cleanup tool and then focus on the new Windows Update Cleanup feature. As I do, I'll give you a little background on the Windows update leftovers that this tool is designed to eliminate. Note: Disk Cleanup and the Windows Update Cleanup feature works the same in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. This article applies to all of those Windows versions, though all of the example screen shots are from a Windows 8 system. The WinSxS folder If you used the Windows operating system back in the Windows 9x days, you're familiar with the term DLL Hell. This situation arose when you installed different programs that included updated versions of Dynamic Link Library (DLL) files with the same name as files already on the system. These duplicate files would wreak havoc with applications and the operating system. For example, an application would look for a specific version of a DLL file, but find a newer version that was recently updated by another program. Since the version was different, the application would act strangely or crash altogether. By the time Windows Vista was introduced, Microsoft solved the problem by creating a new technology called componentizatio
Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about http://serverfault.com/questions/21777/archived-and-queued-windows-error-reporting hiring developers or posting ads with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Archived and queued Windows Error Reporting up vote 8 down vote favorite 2 Just ran Disk Cleanup windows error on a computer here (Windows Vista), and saw 3 items in the list I haven't seen before: Per user archived Windows Error Repo... | 402 MB System archived WIndows Error Repor... | 18,0 KB System queued Windows Error Reporti... | 533 MB What are those? I assume it is safe to delete, but should I do something with it first? Should I for example be kind to Mircosoft and send all that queued stuff? How would I do that? Note: windows error reporting Wish I knew what was after those dots. Assume it is "Reporting", but no idea if there is more after it. Hate dialogs that can not be resized... (or at least lets me know what is behind truncated text in a tooltip) windows windows-vista cleanup share|improve this question asked Jun 8 '09 at 9:08 Svish 1,65092539 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 7 down vote accepted Yes it is safe to delete these files, they are files generated by Windows Error Reporting when an application error occurs. The per-user data is saved to: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\wer the system data is saved to: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ THose two folders are split into ReportArchive which is historical reports, and ReportQueue which are reports that have not been sent yet. This applies to both Windows Vista and Windows 7. share|improve this answer answered Jun 8 '09 at 9:28 Richard Slater 2,81322242 Are they used for anything? Can I use them for anything? Can I somehow tell Windows to send the reports that have not been sent yet? –Svish Jun 8 '09 at 11:27 2 windows retains information about how, what, why and when an application or driver has crashed. Depending on the configuration, found in (Vista: Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Problem Reports and Solutions > Change settings > Advanced settings) windows will periodicly download a file which it will compare the cra