How To Completely Delete WSUS And Database

If you uninstall the WSUS feature and WID Database, it won’t actually delete the WSUS data or database. To completely delete WSUS, you need to:

1. Remove the WSUS and Windows Internal Database (WID) roles / features
2. Delete the C:\windows\WID\Data file (or other database if you’re not using WID
3. Delete the WSUS Content (you would have specified the location of the WSUS data when you installed WSUS – note that this is not the same as the WSUS database). This will be a couple of folders containing a lot of files

You can now reinstall WSUS, if that’s why you’re deleting WSUS here 🙂