Windows installer unused files cleanup tool скачать для windows 7

Microsoft has updated the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can remove a program’s Windows Installer configuration information. You may want to remove the Windows Installer configuration information for your program if you experience installation (Setup) problems. For example, you may have to remove a program’s Windows Installer configuration information if you have installation problems when you try to add (or remove) a component of your program that was not included when you first installed your program.

The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility does not:

• Remove Windows Installer.
• Remove files of any programs that are installed by Windows Installer, such as Microsoft Office 2003.

The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility does:

• Provide a dialog box where you can select one or more programs that were installed by Windows Installer. You select the programs on the Installed Products list in the Windows Installer CleanUp dialog box. After you make this selection, the utility removes only the Windows Installer configuration information that is related to those programs.
• Remove the files and registry settings that make up the Windows Installer configuration information for programs that you select.

If you use this utility to remove the Windows Installer configuration information for your program and you plan to reinstall the program, you should reinstall the program in the same folder where you originally installed it. This prevents duplication of files on your hard disk or disks.

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Windows Installer CleanUp Utility — программа для удаления не до конца установленных приложений. Обычно в таких случаях пользователь попадает в неприятную ситуацию — программа не дает себя ни установить нормально, ни удалить. Обычными средствами Windows эту проблему зачастую невозможно разрешить. Необходимо скачать бесплатно Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, чтобы удалить данные, оставшиеся от неудачной установки.

Порой и вовсе случаются серьезные сбои установщика Windows, из-за которых сразу несколько программ могут установиться некорректно. Утилита Windows Installer CleanUp Utility удаляет абсолютно весь мусор, мешающий переустановить или удалить программу. Удаление всех этих файлов вручную может потребовать очень много времени, не говоря уже о том, что пользователю для этого необходимы специальные знания. Подчищать «хвосты» в некоторых случаях и вовсе кажется невозможной задачей.

Удаление конфигурации установщика также может помочь, если вы хотите добавить к программе дополнительные компоненты, которые ранее не были установлены. Как мы видим, утилита решает целый круг задач, несмотря на узкую направленность. В некоторых ситуациях Windows Installer CleanUp Utility может стать настоящим спасением.

Solid State Drives (SATA and NVMe) are fast becoming the norm for many users to place their Windows install onto. Because prices for larger capacity drives are still quite expensive, many users have smaller capacity drives. If you have a smaller SSD or your Windows boot partition isn’t that large, you need to watch every Gigabyte that goes onto it or space can fill up pretty quickly.

Using tools like TreeSize or SpaceSniffer to find what is taking up excess space on your drive might show that the C:WindsowsInstaller folder is one of them. If you check the folder, you will most likely find a lot of MSI and MSP files in there possibly consuming Gigabytes of drive space. Do note that the Windows Installer folder has a hidden and system attribute. To see the folder, you will need to select “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and uncheck “Hide protected operating system files” from the Folder Options in Control Panel.

Viewing the Property details of MSI and MSP files in the Installer folder could show that they are connected to software currently installed. Others might be from software you have uninstalled or old versions that have since been replaced. Those files should be no longer needed and can be deleted. The problem is identifying them because just deleting any MSI or MSP file is a bad idea as it could be required for updating, patching, or uninstalling existing applications.

Below is an MSP file from an old installation of Microsoft Office 2003 even though that version of Office was uninstalled from the system some time ago.

Here are a few ways in which you can more safely identify and delete redundant MSI and MSP files from the Windows Installer folder.

A Dedicated Cleaning Tool To Removed Unused MSI and MSP Files

Patch Cleaner is specifically designed to clean redundant files from the Installer folder and the tool actually took its inspiration from this very article! Attribution to Raymond.cc is on the about page (thanks HomeDev for the mention). Patch Cleaner appeared in 2015 but there’s been no updates since 2016, so it’s safe to say the program is no longer in development. Both portable and installer versions are available.

Simply launch the tool and it will run a scan and show the results in the window of what has been found. The files still used result is what it believes should be kept and the orphaned files are what can be removed because they are no longer required by any installed software. A Windows install that’s been in use for several years could show several Gigabytes of orphaned files.

If you have adequate space on another drive, it’s best to use the included option and move the files instead of directly deleting them. That way, if you run into a problem, you still have a backup as this process is by no means foolproof. Use the Browse button to locate a destination folder. If you want to ignore MSI or MSP files connected to specific software, an exclusion can be created in the Settings.

Patch Cleaner requires .NET Framework 4.5.2 or newer so Windows 7 users will need to make sure their installed .NET versions include it. Patch Cleaner works on Windows 7, 8, 10, and Server 2008/2012.

Download Patch Cleaner | Patch Cleaner Portable

Use an old Microsoft Utility

One of the old tools that could do this was MsiZap which was developed by Microsoft. The tool is available with The Windows Installer Clean Up Utility (Msicuu) which is basically a frontend for some of MsiZap’s commands. Microsoft discontinued both MsiZap and Msicuu some time ago after saying they were causing too many issues, but many users still use MsiZap with some success. Download the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility and then extract it with 7-Zip to use the MsiZapU.exe.

Open a Command Prompt, type MsiZapU.exe G and press enter. The G command tells the program to remove any orphaned cached Windows Installer data files. While testing we got an error on both Windows 7 and XP similar to the following although it did say it had cleared some orphaned files out.

MsiZapInfo: Performing operations for user S-1-5-21-598190838-2299067166-971484642-1000
Removing orphaned cached files.
Error enumerating Products key for S-1-5-21-598190838-2299067166-971484642-1000 user. Error: 6.
FAILED to clear all data.

MsiZap is definitely a tool to be used with caution because Microsoft usually doesn’t pull utilities unless there’s a valid reason to do so.

Windows Installer Unused Files Cleanup Tool

The Windows Installer UnUsed Files Cleanup Tool (WICleanup) by KZTechs is able to scan for orphaned MSI and MSP files in the WindowsInstaller folder and offers you an option to delete them from the comfort of a graphical user interface. For scripts and command line usage, WICleanup also includes a command line version in the archive (WICleanupC.exe).

All you need to do is extract the downloaded ZIP file, run the WICleanupUI.exe and click the Scan button. All the entries that show in the window are orphaned files and manually check the boxes for what you want to delete. Although it has no option to automatically select all files for deletion, you can use the Shift key to multi-select, i.e; click the first file, hold Shift and click the last file, then click one of the selected tick boxes. It would have been useful if this tool offered an option to backup the unused files instead of deleting them in case of any potential problems. Note the website is in Japanese.

Download WICleanup

Deleting the Unused MSI Entries Manually

Before you simply go into the C:WindowsInstaller folder and start deleting files on your own to free up some space, there is a way to determine which files are orphaned and should be safe to delete. Because the patch files still registered will have a corresponding entry in the registry, those that are missing aren’t necessary anymore.

Heath Stewart over at blogs.msdn.com wrote a small VBScript a few years back that checks the system for registered patch files, and lists those that are. This way you will be shown the files that you SHOULD NOT delete from WindowsInstaller as they are the ones still in use, those not in the list are safe to remove.

Download WiMsps VBScript

Do note that this download isn’t the original VBScript found on the website as that has an annoying OK popup on every registered entry it comes across which can be very annoying because there’s often loads of them. We’ve made a minor modification to output the registered entries to a text file instead.

Don’t forget, these are the currently registered patch files and the ones to not touch. We would recommend you don’t manually delete files from the Installer folder anyway without some experience, and moving them to another folder just in case a problem occurs is more preferable.

• Описание

Аннотация на сайте Microsoft.

Вкратце Windows Installer Clean Up Utility программа Microsoft предназначенная для удаления параметров управления настройкой установщика Windows в случае возникновения проблем.

• Пример случаев,в которых данное средство необходимо

При установки программы возникла неполадка и процесс установки был отменён. Последующие попытки повторно запустить установку программы ни к чему не приводят (многие программы выдают ошибку такого рода: Не удалось запустить установку продукта,т.к. он уже установлен на вашей системе).

Удаление программы чрез Программы и компоненты/Установка и удаление программ не запускается или запускается с ошибкой.

• Актуальность

Компания Microsoft с 2010 года прекратила поддержку продукта Windows Install Clean Up Utility в связи с появлением нового средства FixIt.
Но программа осталась всё также эффективной в плане устранения неполадок при установки/удаления ПО,а в некоторых случаях оказывается эффективней,чем её замена средство Microsoft FixIt.

Windows Install Clean Up Utility прекрасно работает на системах Windows XP и старше вплоть до Windows 10)

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• Инструкция по пользованию

1. Запустить Windows Install Clean Up через меню Пуск. В Windows XP запустить двойным щелчком левой кнопкой мыши по ярлыку. В Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10 запустить от имени администратора.

2. Найти интересующую вас программу в перечне списка

Installed Products

,выделить и нажать на кнопку

Remove

.

3. Дождаться окончания завершения процесса удаления параметров управления настройкой установщика Windows.

• Откуда скачать утилиту ?

Поскольку Microsoft больше не поддерживает данную утилиту на сайтах Центра загрузок Mocrosoft вы её не найдёте.
Вот ссылка на скачивание последней версии Windows Install Clean Up Utility

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Обзор компонента MSIZAP,входящего в утилиту Windows Install Clean Up.

• Описание

Аннотация на сайте Microsoft.
MSIZAP — Стирает данные об установки того или иного ПО,которая проходила с помощью установщика Windows.

Этот компонент стоит использовать,если вы испытываете проблемы с удалением данных об установки ПО через Windows Install Clean Up Utility. Данный компонент запускается через командную строку.

• Инструкция по пользованию

1. Запустите командную строку (в Windows XP просто зайдите в Меню Пуск -> Служебные -> двойным щелчком мыши по ярлыку командной строки,в Windows 7 и старше командную строку нужно запускать от имени администратора).
2. В командной строке введите

"C:Program FilesWindows Installer Clean Up"MsiZap.exe /?

и нажмите Enter.
Далее вам высветится ключи,которые выполняют разные функции.

Для удаления какой-либо программы достаточно знать её product code или msi package.

• Как узнать product code программы ?

Достаточно заглянуть в ветку реестра HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTInstallerProducts и с помощью Поиска найти свою программу.
Например: Я хочу удалить Windows SDK. Для этого Я открываю Редактор реестра,захожу в HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTInstaller,щёлкаю левой кнопкой мыши по разделу Products,далее в Редакторе реестра нажимаю Правка -> Найти -> вбиваю

Windows SDK

. Далее поиск находит мне раздел с информацией по Windows SDK. Копируем значение ключа ProductCode и вставляем в команду.
В моём случае команда будет выглядеть так

"C:Program FilesWindows Installer Clean Up"MsiZap.exe TP! {95610B28F5DDD7F428F14478C17DD239}