Need Server 2008 R2 cleanup help

[JaredBusch]

Common issue of the C:\windows\installer folder ballooning.

I manually copied cleanmgr and ran it. At the time I had 4.6GB free.

Cleanup Wizard said it would remove 12GB. Well, it took 30 minutes to run and left me with 6GB free.

So, any known good tools to clean this crap up since the MS tools did not?

[JaredBusch]

@momurda said in Need Server 2008 R2 cleanup help:

I used this at home a while ago, due to one of my windows installs being xp64>vista64>7>10.
http://www.homedev.com.au/free/patchcleaner
Never used it on a server though.

I found that in searching, but did not want to use without some recommendations.

It is available in chocolately BTW.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/patchcleaner

Going to try it as it is specifically noted to work with Server 2008 R2.

[stacksofplates]

delete key.

Sorry I'm of no help to you.

[JaredBusch]

@stacksofplates Totally want to....

[black3dynamite]

Msizap could help with the cleanup.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/Msi/msizap-exe

[momurda]

I used this at home a while ago, due to one of my windows installs being xp64>vista64>7>10.
http://www.homedev.com.au/free/patchcleaner
Never used it on a server though.

[dafyre]

In a crunch, you can copy the Installer folder off to a drive with more space and then delete the files from the drive... If you need them back, you can just do a directory junction to wherever you copied them to.

[JaredBusch]

@black3dynamite said in Need Server 2008 R2 cleanup help:

Msizap could help with the cleanup.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/Msi/msizap-exe

That looks totally deadly to a system.

[JaredBusch]

@momurda said in Need Server 2008 R2 cleanup help:

I used this at home a while ago, due to one of my windows installs being xp64>vista64>7>10.
http://www.homedev.com.au/free/patchcleaner
Never used it on a server though.

I found that in searching, but did not want to use without some recommendations.

It is available in chocolately BTW.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/patchcleaner

Going to try it as it is specifically noted to work with Server 2008 R2.

[black3dynamite]

@jaredbusch said in Need Server 2008 R2 cleanup help:

@black3dynamite said in Need Server 2008 R2 cleanup help:

Msizap could help with the cleanup.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/Msi/msizap-exe

That looks totally deadly to a system.

It can be, especially with * option. I would assume option g that removes any cached Windows Installer data files that have been orphaned would be safer?

[JaredBusch]

I like that it has the move option..

[JaredBusch]

That was painless.

[scottalanmiller]

@jaredbusch nice