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Old June 6th 17, 04:01 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jason
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Default Windows Installer folder - all needed?

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?

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Old June 6th 17, 08:09 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Windows Installer folder - all needed?

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 23:01:40 -0400, 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?


No. Make a bold move, delete it all.
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Old June 6th 17, 08:43 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Windows Installer folder - all needed?

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.

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Old June 6th 17, 03:32 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Windows Installer folder - all needed?

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 ;-(

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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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Old June 6th 17, 11:52 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Windows Installer folder - all needed?

"Jason" wrote

| I've run disk cleanup often, especially after a swarm up updates hits, but
| it hasn't touched the old, old files that directory ;-(
|
It sounds to me like a fresh install might be good.
You can also go through them and see what you
need. Some programs leave behind a tiny MSI. Some
leave behind almost the whole installer. You may be
able to identify the programs by hovering to get
tooltips. Otherwise, the GUIDs should correspond to
GUIDs in the HKLM.... Uninstall key, allowing you to
see what you've got. Deleting them may mess up
uninstall, but if the programs are gone, or you
have no intention of uninstalling, then it's not a
problem.


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Old June 8th 17, 12:54 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Machiel de Wit
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Default Windows Installer folder - all needed?

Jason schreef op 06-06-2017
in :
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?


What is the path of that folder?

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Old June 8th 17, 03:45 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Thu, 08 Jun 2017 01:54:03 +0200, Machiel de Wit
wrote:

Jason schreef op 06-06-2017
in :
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?


What is the path of that folder?


It could be C:\Windows\Installer
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Old August 7th 17, 12:43 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Diesel
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Default Windows Installer folder - all needed?

"Mayayana" news Tue, 06 Jun 2017 22:52:49 GMT in alt.comp.os.windows-10, wrote:

"Jason" wrote

| I've run disk cleanup often, especially after a swarm up updates
| hits, but it hasn't touched the old, old files that directory ;-(
|
It sounds to me like a fresh install might be good.


Only if he's having issues other than that. Otherwise, the fresh
install also includes reinstall of everything he uses and drivers.
Depending on how he goes about doing the fresh install, maybe
restoration of all data files/documents, etc he uses will be necessary
as well. I don't see the gain in doing this?



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