[What i would pay more for - winsys and installer cleaner]

      dvdbane I am familiar with DISM bit I am not aware of an cleanup of orphaned files

 

I know it restricts what it copies making the WIM file but this is for re-imaging.

 

I am after in place tools.

 

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[What i would pay more for - winsys and installer cleaner]

Willy2 - The windows cleanup tool does not do many things, orphaned side by side files, and installers are not part of it .

 

Nor from memory does it clean the whole c:\windows\softwaredistribution areas

 

A 4rd party cleanup tool can attract a premium if it does the lot, ccleaner does not currently.

 

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[What i would pay more for - winsys and installer cleaner]

Hi

 

More than 50% of the disk space used on my vm template is using c:\windows\installer , c:\windows\winsxs

 

I am pretty confident there are orphaned files here.

 

I tried wicleanup for the installers and this deleted some MSI's which were referenced in the registry, so this is a no go and warning to others. (i.e. uninstalls did not work)

 

To me, any these are the two items any serious cleanup tool should have in the advanced section.

 

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