C:\WINDOWS\Installer

[Guest Nick Wilton]

Please could someone inform me why by default, Windows does NOT delete

all temporary installation files from the C:\WINDOWS\Installer folder?

I have a number of servers within a farm here that have over 30 GB of

disk space eaten up through temporary files. I assume it is safe for

me to delete everything in here?

 

While we are about it, is there any option within microsoft update

that can mitigate the affects of this bug?

 

Thanks in advance,

[Guest Anthony]

Re: C:\WINDOWS\Installer

 

Nick,

Browse for Windows Installer Cache and then decide what you want to do.

The real Temporary files (as opposed to cached installation files) are in

the user or system environment variable %Temp%

Anthony,

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"Nick Wilton" <CatchExAs@googlemail.com> wrote in message

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> Please could someone inform me why by default, Windows does NOT delete

> all temporary installation files from the C:\WINDOWS\Installer folder?

> I have a number of servers within a farm here that have over 30 GB of

> disk space eaten up through temporary files. I assume it is safe for

> me to delete everything in here?

>

> While we are about it, is there any option within microsoft update

> that can mitigate the affects of this bug?

>

> Thanks in advance,

>