Although it has no option to automatically select all files for deletion, you can use the Shift key to multi-select, i. It would have been useful if this tool offered an option to backup the unused files instead of deleting them in case of any potential problems. Note the website is in Japanese. Download WICleanup. Heath Stewart over at blogs. I used Patch Cleaner on my Windows 8. This week I noticed that I was no longer receiving updates for Office On my Windows 10 machine with Office , 8 updates were installed.
I manually downloaded these 8 individual Office updates released in August , and tried to install them offline. After some searching I remembered having run Patch Cleaner. So I reverted the machine back to the state before running Patch Cleaner, and ran Windows Update again. Now all 10 Office updates from July and August did show up in the list of available patches.
My opinion: Patch Cleaner may have recovered 6 GB of storage, but it did more harm than good. This was awesome. Only 6 files were needed. This helped. Every time I try to download Patch Cleaner, I get an error message that setup cannot continue until all system components have been successfully installed.
Patch Cleaner is the obvious solution here. I freed up If so, then it should be safe to delete them permanently! Great article, thank you! Used WiCleanup along with WiMsps.
Whilst WiCleanup identified all of the potential files, it also had those on the list which WiMsps said to keep. It takes a bit of time, but worth the effort. I managed to free up 25GB of space. Thanks for this info. I went with WICleanup. I have been fighting with low disk space for months. I had 40 gig in the installer folder. Lots of clicking but I have space to work now. Windows version failed on installation. WiCleaner worked flawlessly. Cleaned up 29 GB in 10 minutes. Thank you for your informative article!
Thank you very much sir, really good and helpful article with clear instructions. I found unused files taking up 50,8GB …imagine, I had to hit yes and ok for every single file to get rid of it! Absolutely worth it! Many thanks. My experience mirrored that of Maros.
Very helpful and straightforward instructions. Thank you. Lol I like how the main article has no mention of Patch Cleaner, but the comment section have hijacked it by only talking about Patch Cleaner. Patch Cleaner was actually only in development for about 9 months. PatchCleaner worked like a charm, 20 GB cleaned. I moved the files to an external hard drive just in case but damn! WICleanup was a rather awkward and clunky to use, but it definitely did find a lot of orphan files on my machine and allowed me to delete them.
Thanks for this article. Patch Cleaner found 45 GB of orphans! Why all the cumbersome solutions? Your solution is vastly more cumbersome than all of these, they are free and only take a matter of seconds to find what they are looking for.
Your solution is paying for software and then waiting an hour for it to complete its task! After using Patch Cleaner be prepared for an extremely long boot. I think mine is busy now for half an hour or so, though not stuck yet…. I have had to really scour my brain to remember all my old VAX commands when using the command prompt, so any suggestions will be most gratefully received. For nearly a year I have been working with a margin of about 3 GBs of space on my hard drive, it was so frustrating!
To have this problem solved is fantastic. Total disk usage was 61 GB, meaning over half my files were garbage!!! Good job Patch Cleaner! After doing some research, I realised that the Windows Installer sub-folder was the main culprit 28GB in size! However, it took me hours of research and banging my head against a brick wall , before stumbling across the positive feedback here for PatchCleaner.
I was absolutely amazed! Before, the sub-folder was 6GB in size but is now slightly over MB. Now, I have just under 60GB of available space. They are not duplicates. Delete one the other disappears. Patch Cleaner. It cleans the windows installer directory with one easy click. Patch Cleaner has found Fingers crossed my laptop will continue to work properly.
I manually looked at the properties for a number of them and they are for programs that are listed as installed, and truly are installed. I would NOT use it. MSIZap has similar problems, so be careful. Used PatchCleaner today to free 32 GB of a total 39,4 GB in my windows installer folder moved to external backup drive. What is left corresponds to installed applications.
PatchCleaner was very user friendly and worked like a charm used version 1. Just moved 28 GB to another drive using Patch Cleaner. Now I just have to verify that everything continues to work normally. Tried PatchCleaner today. Found over orphaned files Successfully moved them to another partition. Used PatchCleaner, freed up 16,9 GB! After having run Patchcleaner to move my orphan files it is a safe 32GB again. So it freed some 18GB.
My one question is: how will this affect the moment probably coming Summer that I decide to upgrade to Windows 10? I prefer upgrading rather than doing a fresh W10 install. Will Windows need the moved orphans and search for them? Would it be better to first move the orhans back to their original folder? Many thanx, man!!! It looks like everything is still working. So thanx again! This program is a lifesaver! I managed to get back 45 GB of space accumulated over 5 years.
I run a MacOS with Win8. I systematically used SDelete and CCleaner to free up space, but none of them managed to to what this program did. Just WoW! Although I regularly kept my workspace clean, I knew there was some memory still disappearing over time. Finally I managed to get to it.
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RossN said on December 13, at am. Strange, have you checked in the Installer folder whether the files are still in it? Jacob Lageveen said on December 15, at am. Good you clarified this. Would be a serious bug. Corky said on December 13, at am. Rick said on December 13, at pm. Worked perfectly, and no clean install needed. Chuck said on May 4, at pm. Tom Hawack said on December 13, at am.
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Way too many entries from Virus Total: Is this a present from Download. Martin Brinkmann said on December 13, at pm. I will not use Pathcleaner as I have too little knowledge of these things.
Why in the world is this not a portable app? Why does it need to be installed? Skrell said on December 13, at pm. Do i need CCEnhancer? Frustrated said on December 13, at pm. Rich said on December 14, at am. Thanks Martin! David said on December 14, at am. Please note: we are assuming that the file is not crucial to the operation of Windows — deleting important system files can cause havoc. Software Patch. Is the file in use? It sounds obvious but it happens.
If it is being used or open, close the file and the application that opened it. For example, if it is a Word document, close Microsoft Word. If the file was opened in an application and subsequently closed , but the program is still running, try quitting the program. Windows will lock a file because the application hasn't yet released it.
This is not always Windows fault and can be the fault of the program. DivX files don't get on very well with Windows XP and sometimes renaming the file can trick Windows into releasing it.
Reboot your PC and don't start any programs. Go directly to the file and delete it. Uncheck everything except the file name. This stops Windows XP trying to read the file - this problem affects many video, audio and graphics files.
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