Windows Installer Folder Cleanup Windows 2008 Disk

  

Hello Spicy peeps, It seems our Citrix XenApp server 6.0 with Windows 2006 R2 x64 is running out of space on a 60GB system drive. I have quite a few other servers with the same size root drive and do much heavier lifting than this server with plenty of space available still. After checking 4+ other servers the entire windows directory is under 20GB total on all of them. Using TreeSize I'm able to see that its my Windows folder alone is very close to 40GB. C: Windows Installers folder that has ramped up to 18GB itself!

Windows Installer Folder Cleanup Windows 2008 Disk

I've used cleanmgr.exe but it doesn't find anything to cleanup! After some research I found a few articles about this but nothing conclusive that I want to try on a production server. Obviously adding more disk space would be the quick/easy solution. Something is telling me I would run into the same problem later and be wasting more time/space. How would you go about shrinking the size of the windows directory? I've been in similar situations. I never liked using MSIZap because, aside from the difficulty in finding the tool in the first place, the one time I tried it I was left with a very badly broken MSOffice installation and an impatient user who OMGNEEDED it NOW.

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MSFT seriously needs to figure out an updated fix for this problem, as I'm still seeing it on W7 hosts but MSIZap hasn't been updated to work on anything beyond the XP era. Nuking and reinstalling isn't always practical and is way, way too drastic to be the go-to response to a Windows folder growing out of control. AceOfSpades wrote: Have you seen It's an update from MS titled 'How to Clean up the WinSxS Directory and Free Up Disk Space on Windows Server 2008 R2 with New Update' I have used Disk Cleanup before to clean the WinSxS directory on a Windows 7 machine and it had worked nicely for me, in his case though it is that Installer directory. Looks like he already tried Disk Cleanup as well: 'I've used cleanmgr.exe but it doesn't find anything to cleanup! After some research I found a few articles about this but nothing conclusive that I want to try on a production server. *sigh* At this point I'd just bite the bullet and allocate more disk space to the VM and plan to migrate it. MSFT either doesn't realize or doesn't care that this is a problem for a lot of people.

I know there are MSFT reps here on Spiceworks - maybe they can offer something that's better than going to TechNet and talking to one of the complete jokes that pass for 'experts' there (who seem to know nothing other than parroting the same useless responses over and over and over again). Sorry to the MSFT people I've tagged, but TechNet's usefulness is barely nonzero in my experience and Spiceworks vastly outstrips it in terms of being able to get a direct, relevant and usable answer to a technical inquiry. Sorry to hear you think there is little value in the ANSWERS forums Shnladd. Based on reading this thread, you have tried most of the cleanup options, including Disk Cleanup with advanced settings to remove everything not required. Cimco Edit 7 Full. DiskCleanup was something that was added and backported to 2008 R2 and Win 7 if you were up to date in your updates.