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DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup seems to be having an issue cleaning up 2 reclaimable packages. I wonder why.

Anonymous
2021-05-16T19:11:56+00:00

Windows 10 home 64-bit

Version 20H2 (OS Build 19042.985)

Installed RAM = 16 Gb

Storage = 1 Tb SSD

System = HP ENVY m7 Notebook

All recommended updates from HP applied

All available updates from MS applied

Almost all of the things I run are browser based (Chrome Version 90.0.4430.212 (Official Build) (64-bit)).

That said, to the best of my knowledge absolutely everything on this notebook works without issue. (Except the following.)

The issue:

I run .........

DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /AnalyzeComponentStore and it says there are 2 reclaimable packages and that cleanup is recommended

DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup and it gets to 20% and then says the operation completed successfully

But if I run DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /AnalyzeComponentStore again, it continues to display that there are 2 reclaimable packages and that cleanup is recommended

Please check out the attachment to see the exact verbiage generated from the commands (below)

Of note:

In the past year or so, DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /AnalyzeComponentStore has shown (when I ran it)  that I had 3,4 or even more reclaimable packages.

And DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup was always able to clean up all of them EXCEPT for 2.

I always seem to have 2 reclaimable packages but don't know what they are or what I might do to help them get cleaned up.

I have been encountering this issue for well over a year now so I'm fairly certain the issue is not related to any recent updates.

I ran the following commands, in this order, as the System Admin inside of an admin command prompt

I even tried restarting the machine between commands but the results were the same.

sfc/scannow

chkdsk /r /f

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /AnalyzeComponentStore (This command says there are 2 reclaimable packages and component store cleanup is recommended)

DISM.exe /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup  (This command gets to 20% and then reads "The operation completed successfully".)

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-05-16T22:29:27+00:00

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