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Old June 6th 17, 03:35 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Big Al[_7_]
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Default Windows Installer folder - all needed?

On 06/06/2017 10:32 AM, Jason wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 03:43:19 -0400 "Big Al" wrote in
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On 06/05/2017 11:01 PM, Jason wrote:
This folder occupies about 9 GB on my C drive. Many of the files long
predate my Win 10 installation - they date to XP and Win 7 days. Are these
8-year old files really still necessary?

Open disk cleanup utility as administrator and run it. It will do the
work properly for you.

Click on cortana and type clean, you should get disk cleanup. Right
click then run as administrator.
One of the selection checkboxes it to clean / delete old windows
updates. I check almost everything except thumbnails.


I've run disk cleanup often, especially after a swarm up updates hits, but
it hasn't touched the old, old files that directory ;-(

You run it as admin?
Usually does it for me. Course I'm not sure exactly what folder you
speaking about so yes, maybe it misses your one. Murphy's Law!

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