One consolation is Microsoft allows opening tickets for update issues at no charge, it is of course slow email correspondence but if you're doing this for your personal PC it beats calling an IT guy out because update issues especially. (another solution if you are completely stumped is to hide the update giving you problems, so it won't So after you free the disk space you need to ensure your windowsupdates say "No updates remaining" or else you will continue to have this problem crop up.
Msizap G is the first step to free up the disk space, but if you stop there over time (by default each night at 3AM) the updates will attempt to re-apply and make another copy, then the next day and the next, after a few months the disk is full again.
net install is somehow non-standard or corrupted. net installations, broken as in the security fixes won't install because the main. You are exactly right, this fixes only part of the problem, you might get your disk space back but over time the installers gather back up. To summarize the question for our offshore counterparts: How do you properly and permanently reduce the size of the C:\Windows\Installer folder on Windows 2003 when it starts becoming bloated? Will someone at Microsoft please look into this issue and provide a better response than the Installer Cleanup Utility that is provided "as-is" and is documented to break other applications. Besides, that does not address the problem of backup size. You do not throw more hardware at something because it has a software bug.
focusing on how to add space to your partition. Only a few people seem to have this issue, but most replies are the same on forums and across the net. If these are updates, that have been applied or need to be referred to, why is it this folder has more information in it than everything else on my system drive!!! So the only place it is visible is where it is out of control, making me wonder if one is related to the other. The reason I do know the folder exists on other servers is because they do display contents in response to an explicit 'dir' command. But on the server where it is taking up over 5GB of space, the 'Installer' folder IS visible inside Windows Explorer. What's even stranger, is that though this folder exists on ALL my servers, and every other server has less than a GB of data in this folder, the folder is not visible at all in Windows Explorer (even with hidden and system files set to visible). It is taking up more space than all the other folders in the Windows path! But only one of my servers is displaying this behavior. My C:\Windows\Installer folder is filling up with files and folders. Type "LINKD /? | more" if you need to see all the help text Usage of arbitrary Unicode characters is not supported. When the target name does not resolve to a directory or a device, open calls fail.Īll characters in both the Source and Destination names must be in the ASCII character set. The destination (the target of the link) can be any valid directory name or device name or valid object name in Windows 2000. The Source directory must reside on a disk formatted with NTFS in Windows 2000. LINKD grafts (links) the target name directly into the name space at Source, so that Source subsequently acts as a name space junction. Source /D - Deletes Source, regardless of whether a link exists at Windows 2000 device or any valid Windows 2000 name Source Destination - Links source directory to Destination directory or a Source - Displays the Windows 2000 name targeted by Source Links an NTFS directory to a target valid object name in Windows 2000.
You can add space to your disk or partition by using the command linkd (Windows Resource Kit) :Ĭ:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools>linkd I know it doesn't solve the problem but it can help.