Set downloads folder to delete old files

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LastWriteTime -lt Get-Date. I am a walking, talking recent example of why those install files are so precious. Among my reinstalls were Quicken 99 and Acrobat Pro 8. Both products are deprecated and no longer supported. The vendors, after all, have a vested interest in getting us to abandon our oldies but goodies.

I will soon have to scrub or nuke my Windoze 7 instalation because of it. Also, is this the one that fills all available memory space with instances of COM Surrogate? Is it not the case that sometimes the installation files are also the uninstall files? This is true. More often the setup process will install an uninstall program of some sort, or copy what needs to be saved to the install folder.

I actually deleted the setup files of a software and now the software is not working and i need the setup to reinstall. Is there any solution to my problem except downloading the whole thing again as it was pretty huge.

I zipped all files that were downloaded by Canon when installing a printer. It is huge! The last time I deleted this file I had to reinstall the printer, thus creating all these duplicate files. I am not sure what is safe to remove. Hi Leo , i always used to receive your newsletter and i think it was lost when a friend built the pc i am on now. It said email address blocked.

Refer to? When you have time to look at this i would like to subscribe again. Thank You , Don Barajas….. All I can suggest is subscribing using a different email address.

Hi Leo, I was pleased to read your suggestion to save set-up files etc. Leo, was my choice to MOVE them to a flash drive a mistake? Cheers and Happy New Year. USB flash drive have a limited amount of writes before they start to fail.

My personal opinion of USB flash drives is that they are great for copying data from one computer to one computer or device to another. Literally — Move is often implemented as a copy followed by a delete. Image Credit: Mixy Lorenzo on Flickr. Browse All iPhone Articles Browse All Mac Articles Do I need one? Browse All Android Articles Browse All Smart Home Articles Customize the Taskbar in Windows Browse All Microsoft Office Articles What Is svchost.

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