A recaching of the application also fails, as stated above. So what is the next solution? For this, the steps are:. I cannot stress enough how important it is not to delete or empty the installer folder. Make your job easier with our best practices guide for installation packaging. Add your app. Enterprise Packaging Checklist Make your job easier with our best practices guide for installation packaging.
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. Josh 2 years ago. David 3 years ago. Ed Barnes 2 years ago. Chris 3 years ago. Steve D 3 years ago. Buddy Sharp 3 years ago. Maros 3 years ago. Andrew 3 years ago. Todd 3 years ago.
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Deleting files from the WinSxS folder or deleting the entire WinSxS folder may severely damage your system so that your PC might not boot and make it impossible to update. You can use Disk Cleanup to reduce the number of unnecessary files on your drives, which can help your PC run faster. It can delete temporary files and system files, empty the Recycle Bin, and remove a variety of other items that you might no longer need. Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.
You can simply use Disk Cleanup and clean up the unwanted files from WinSxS folder as well or you can remove the unwanted features directly from powershell. In-place upgrade from r2 to affect on spanned volume.
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