Re: C:\Windows\Installer files

Lol writes:
> > I tryWinDirStat and that shows me that drive C: (49Gb) is taken up with
> > 30Gb of .msi files in a folder C:\Windows\Installer...
> >
> > Googling this lead me to msicuu2.exe
> > which I installed and ran, but it didn't actually do anything to get rid
> > of this inert lump.
>
> OK I got there - if anyone else has this problem, the answer was:
> Start - run, CD to wherever msicuu2.exe was installed and run
> msixap !G
> manually.
>
> That did the trick - 30Gb of MS junk gone, a happy PC again

Note that deleting things in this folder can cause problems if, for
example, you want to uninstall a game. I recall that an install of
Crysis created a gig or two of stuff here, and that deleting it
prevented me from uninstalling it properly.

Games are the main disk space offender for this folder. Some (all?) of
the stuff is needed for patch management or uninstall processes.