Delete files from windows installer directory

Good job Patch Cleaner! After doing some research, I realised that the Windows Installer sub-folder was the main culprit 28GB in size! However, it took me hours of research and banging my head against a brick wall , before stumbling across the positive feedback here for PatchCleaner. I was absolutely amazed! Before, the sub-folder was 6GB in size but is now slightly over MB.

Now, I have just under 60GB of available space. They are not duplicates. Delete one the other disappears. Patch Cleaner. It cleans the windows installer directory with one easy click. Patch Cleaner has found Fingers crossed my laptop will continue to work properly. I manually looked at the properties for a number of them and they are for programs that are listed as installed, and truly are installed. I would NOT use it.

MSIZap has similar problems, so be careful. Used PatchCleaner today to free 32 GB of a total 39,4 GB in my windows installer folder moved to external backup drive. What is left corresponds to installed applications. PatchCleaner was very user friendly and worked like a charm used version 1.

Just moved 28 GB to another drive using Patch Cleaner. Now I just have to verify that everything continues to work normally. Tried PatchCleaner today. Found over orphaned files Successfully moved them to another partition. Used PatchCleaner, freed up 16,9 GB! This is just sick. When I pulled it out of quarantine it was again flagged as a virus. I deleted the file.

I tried to download it elsewhere but had same result. I looked a bit online and a few feel the original file has been swapped out for something evil from China since Please re-evaluate this file as it has been compromised. What is your evidence that WICleanup has been compromised? Wow patch cleaner works like a charm. There is now a 4th option! Thank you so much! You safed me 14 GB!!! Best, Mark. Moved the files to another HD for now as a test to see if my system decides to break without them.

Hopefully delete soon. This was amazing! Great help! Saved me tonnes of space! Was tired of having a 3 GB pc that used to hang! So far it works. Greg, I would like to take your advice but keep getting unrecognized command error tried mklink and ln. I am running Windows XP on a very old laptop and I am not very savvy, do you have any suggestions for me?

Thanks a lot mate. I have a very small SSD, so these files occupying it were eating almost 3 Gs of valuable space. Junction worked. What about recreating the Installer and winsxs directories on another drive and creating junctions in the original locations? Tested to work on my Windows 7 machine with windows update, but have not tested going back to a windows restore point. A PC was brought to me today with a full GB hard drive.

Nothing in the standard spots like users and such but I was curious so I checked the local apps hidden. Nothing unusual there either. Roughly GB or data. Bumping Byte to Bits! This is crazy I thought. Anyway I knew it was windows updates failing. Looking over everything it has been failing every day since And only today I found an old Microsoft post from , claiming that they will try doing something with this… Three years ago now.

I hope sth will be done in Win 10 with that…. I really recommend checking it out. A little time has passed but I wondered if anyone else had this issue after using the WICleanup utility. After deleting about 4. Many of the undates have date stamps going back to Does one simply ignore those or what?

I had just done an update check so I know none of these were necessary prior to deleting the Installer files. Just group select then click in any of the selected files check box. All will become checked. Delete away. Completely retarded. I also have the same problem. I found the solution as follows: goto wicleanup directory run wicleanup commandline version with -s silent option.

It will delete all the orphaned files without any further prompt. Thanks… not only did running from command line work… it took mere seconds. Thank you for the great tip! My folder was about 7GB and now is only 1. It is but the program is in English, just translate the page or click a download button on the right hand side of the webpage. Working on a friends computer. She had THX a Million! Got a long list of files with total 1. You cannot under any circumstances delete files from this folder manually as this not only may but most likely will break software that is installed using MSI files, or Windows Installer files.

I wonder how this particular folder can get up to 60GB? Mine is 8GB, which even seems a bit much. My Win10 Windows folder. As this is a Windows system folder dealing with patch and updates for Windows functions I would also be very wary of messing with it. I believe you will have already read SpiritX's comments on the other thread. His suggestions are is as good as you will get.

Even if you did know. It also seems to get bloated on some peoples machines. Yay for 3rd party developers Too bad MS is making life harder for them on Win Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. The installer files are a record of file versions and registry dependencies involved in a particular application or application update installation.

The availability of this record in the cache helps to uninstall and update applications properly. Let us know if you have any further query on Windows, we are glad to assist. My question is: can I clean this somehow? Thanks for your help! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.