Safely clean your Windows Installer folder with PatchCleaner

PatchCleaner is a free tool which can detect and safely remove junk files from the \Windows\Installer folder, potentially freeing up gigabytes of hard drive space. The folder contains Windows Installer-based setup programs and patch files, and uses these whenever you want to modify or update the software. They should be removed when you uninstall a program, but guess what? This doesn’t always happen. Launch PatchCleaner and it first uses WMI to obtain the official list of Windows Installer-based programs and patches. The program then scans your \Windows\Installer folder, identifies installers and patches which don’t appear on the WMI "installed" list,… [Continue Reading]