Remove Windows Installation Files

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Did you ever experience a frustrated situation while you were installing software on your Windows, and suddenly the installation process encountered errors and failed to complete. You’ve tried to re-install the program but the stubborn program just refused to install itself on your computer. Although the installation failed, but there will be leftover Windows Installer configuration information on your system. Therefore, you may want to remove the Windows Installer configuration information for your programs.

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility is a freeware Windows utility that allows you to remove the Windows Installer configuration information from the programs that refuse to install. The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility is created by Microsoft to help resolve installation problems for programs that use Microsoft Windows Installer. After removing the program’s Windows Installer information using Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can try re-install the application.

To use Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, launch the program after a complete installation. Select the program or application with installation setup problem and click the “Remove” button to clean up.

Jan 16, 2014  Delete Windows.old folder using Disk Cleanup Open Disk Cleanup Tool  and select Files from all users on this computer. Click the Disk Cleanup tab, and then look for the Previous Windows. Aug 28, 2015  b) If you remove that folder, a new folder is created as you indicate, but as I have read about and personally witnessed on two machines, then it will just download all the Windows 10 setup temporary files again. How to Delete Windows Installation Folder in Settings. Deleting your previous version of Windows installation(s), here is how: Step 1: Open Settings app, click System Storage. Step 2: Click on This PC and then scroll down the list and choose Temporary files. Step 3: Under Remove temporary files, select the Previous version of Windows check box and then choose Remove files. How to Remove Windows Installation Folder using Disk Cleanup. Windows.old folder contains a copy of the previous Windows installation in C: disk, and it takes up much of storage. It can free up several GBs of disk space by using.

This freeware works on all versions of Windows.

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