Re: Windows/installer (hidden folder - getting very large indeed!)

Many thanks, DL.
I've used TreeSize Free to identify the files /folders causing the problem.
Up until very recently I've always had more than 15% free to use defrag etc.
It suddenly dipped way below that figure. So I'm still at a loss to
understand what the installer folder is doing to my system!

chrisK

"DL" wrote:

Are you sure these are all MS installer files, seems far to many/large to
me.
Install something like TreeSize Pro to determin exactly what is consuming
your space

There is something not quite right if your win installation is consuming
16gb

You say you have a 32gb disk & win is consuming 16gb and that you are then
left with some 200mb free space; By implication your Apps & data are using
15gb - Your disk is too small for your usage, install a slave disk, or
external, and move data to that.

If you have less than 15% free space (32gb with 4.8gb free) you can suffer
all manor of problems, not least Disk Cleanup wont run

"chrisk" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:390F378E-0728-45CB-8D8E-2C290FE35A06@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I submitted the following query to Microsoft several days ago - as yet no
response even though it said I'd get a reply within 24 hours - I have an
HP
Pavilion PC (nearly 3 years old) with a 32 Mb hard disk. A couple of
weeks
ago I noticed that I was running out of space. It's now occupying 16Gb of
mainly .msi files (It took a while to track down where this 'disappeared'
space was located since it's a hidden directory. I've found only one
other
posting on the same/similar problem i.e. 10/13/2005 from Bill43. The
replies
indicate that there's not much I can do about this, and I just don't
believe
that I'm forced into buying a bigger disk just to accommodate Microsoft
updates that have been automatically loaded into the system! 16Gb is far
bigger than the original XP operating system, isn't it?

It seems to me that maybe other users are having the same problem -
perhaps
unbeknownst to them. Unless there's a way of reducing this space, it's a
sort of mechanism for built-in obsolescence of my XP-based machine!!

The machine crashed last week and it took more than three days to do a
system recover and total disk space after loading Microsoft security
updates
and SP2 reducing usable disk space to just 200Mb at one point (even after
jettisoning strictly non-essential personal data and applications and MS
disk
cleaner etc etc).

I've tried running the installer cleaner, but this shows four or five
installed software items which appear mainstream.

I'd be /very/ grateful for some concrete suggestions - the machine was
bought with preinstalled XP, and I don't have the disk - so I can't scrap
the
current system by reinstallation (and besides, I can't face reinstalling
all
the broadband connection stuff and Word!

Thanks!




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