Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? In this article. 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. Deleted them all. Are you sure your original folder size was 18GB??? You have to install a hell of a lot of software to get anywhere near that size Installer folder.
Raymond and I have both just tested WICleanup again and it worked fine on my Win 7 64bit and his Win 7 32bit deleting what it said it would. This is most useful. This is a file folder I had not investigated till now and find it 2. The WICleanup app could use a select all button -. Thanks for the post.
My Installer folder was about 7GB. Thanks a lot Raymond! So the total size of the Installer folder is stil under a 1GB and I have been using this installation for quite some time now. Pim 1 year ago. The IT Guy in the building 1 year ago. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. CmdrKeene MVP. How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. That is a large enough digression - I just don't want to see people download malware. Do your virustotal. Uninstalling like this should work OK. I think these tools mess with too many things when you try their "cleanup features" though.
Use with caution. If you only use the uninstall feature, you should be OK. It should not be used on any newer Windows versions This command line tool msizap. Both tools are deprectated. The intended use of these tools was to clean out failing uninstalls : Generally for the rare case when the cached MSI with the random name is erroneously missing and uninstall fails for this reason whilst asking for the original MSI. This is a rare problem, but I have seen it myself.
Just a few potential causes: Moved to this answer. Key words: system restore interference, bad cleanup apps, msiexec. It could also be used to zap any MSI installation, though that is obviously not advisable. More information: Why does MSI require the original. This newer support tool this tool is now also deprecated can be tried on recent Windows versions if you have defunct MSI packages needing uninstall.
Some have suggested to use the tool linked to here by saschabeaumont: Uninstall without an MSI file. If you try it and it works, please be sure to let us know. If you have access to the original MSI that was actually used to install the product, you can use this to run the uninstall. It must be the exact MSI that was used, and not just a similar one.
Restoring via a restore point brings the system back to a previous installation state you can find video demos of this on YouTube or a similar site.
Note that the feature can be disabled entirely or partly - it is possible to disable permanently for the whole machine, or adhoc per install. I have seen new, unsolvable installation problems resulting from a system restore, but normally it works OK.
Obviously don't use the feature for fun. It's a last resort and is best used for rollback of new drivers or setups that have just been installed and are found to cause immediate problems bluescreen , reboots, instability, etc The longer you go back the more rework you will create for yourself, and the higher the risk will be.
Most systems feature only a few restore points, and most of them stretch back just a month or two I believe. Be aware that system restore might affect Windows Updates that must then be re-applied - as well as many other system settings.
Beyond pure annoyances, this can also cause security issues to resurface and you might want to run a specific security check on the target box es using Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or similar tools.
This feature has nothing to do with uninstall or system restore, but it is the last boot configuration that worked or resulted in a running system.
It can be used to get your system running again if it bluescreens or halts during booting. This often happens after driver installs. Copy and paste the above code into your main CPP file replacing whatever is there. That should be it to be able to run the code. Maybe set a breakpoint, build and run. Beware of changes to the default templates in VS, and the weird errors that can result: There are too many errors for the IntelliSense engine to function correctly. I no longer see the above issue. The MSDN link in the code lists the possible error messages returned from msiexec.
In case you want a simpler way to deal with the complicated msiexec. Can you update your answer with a new link? There are certainly further possible causes. Show 4 more comments. Short answer: you can't. Roger Lipscombe Roger Lipscombe 84k 50 50 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. But I'm sure no one wants to do that because if you do you can no longer install an msi by double-clicking on it.
Not sure I agree with roger-lipscombe 's "you can't".
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