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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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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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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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Windows Installer folder - all needed?
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 03:43:19 -0400 "Big Al" wrote in
article 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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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 article 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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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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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? -- MdW. |
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Windows Installer folder - all needed?
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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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? -- https://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php Take two crows and caw me in the morning |
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