After installing each update, a significant piece of space on the HDD is greased. I suspect that Visual Studio merges the downloaded updates somewhere before installation, but doesn’t clean up after itself.

Where to find these files?

Removing garbage through a standard Windows utility does not find them.

  • maybe in temporary files hanging somewhere? - Andrew Goroshko
  • Download any disk space analyzer (WinDirStat) and analyze, for example - andreymal
  • Use the application analyzer of disk space (such as SpaceSniffer, WinDirStat, Scanner by steffen gerlach). It will show you a map of the occupied disk space. - Leonax
  • Temp folder, or right on the C drive are the folders "VisualStudio" and "MSSQLServer201 #" - Alexander Semikashev
  • The picture of these utilities give out a beautiful, it is a pity that the sense of zero from it. The size of the subdirectory can be viewed without a picture, for example, in Total Commander. Only this does not help to determine where the installer VS threw garbage. - freim

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