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Thanks for the info JDPower... I know this behaviour can cause issues for some users and this is the reason why I suggested to have it as an advanced option (not enabled by default)
btw: what kind of problems did they cause? I mean, if you remove ie7 uninstaller, the only problem I can guess you have is to not be able to return back to ie6 but this is not a real issue since most of users prefer to always have latest version of programs
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Hello,
I really like the CCleaner feature that deletes hotfix uninstallers, they are useless and waste hdd spaces.
I noticed that CCleaner doesn't delete all the folders used by hotfixes and more in general windows updates.
I think that it's safe to delete also uninstallers of wmp, ie, net framework and all folders starting with "$" like $hf_mig$ because they come with "WindowsUpdate" and they can be considered like hotfixes.
I think this behaviour can be applied on all updates / programs installed by WindowsUpdate website.
I always deleted them manually for years with no problems at all.
I can understand that not all users want to get rid the ability to return to ie6 or wmp10 (even if I don't see any good reason for that) so maybe it can be added as an option in the advanced section.
Thanks for the help
Improvements for the Hotfix uninstaller delete
in CCleaner Suggestions
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Hi pwillener and thanks for the info
I made some tests on my pcs and I found that WindowsUpdate is still able to recognize hotfixes already installed on the system even if I deleted $hf_mig$ folder.
So I think that the check is elsewhere.
I also red the kb you linked and, if I undestand it correctly, it just says that $hf_mig$ folder is used by the system to store a backup of some dlls in case another hotfix overwrite them with older versions (very rare case I think)
here is a quote from it: