#patchcleaner

Ketika space di drive C sudah sangat sesak (cuma 5 GB). Karena kesalahan di awal yang ngasih partisi ke drive C cuma 80-an GB. padahal di drive D sama E punya size 180-an GB. Yasudah, yang berlalu biarlah berlalu. Lalu coba googling cari cara-cara buat nambah space di drive. Dan beginilah perjalanannya.

Pertama coba pakai fitur Disk Clean Up, disana ada file Windows Update sekitar 14 GB yang bisa dihapus. Tapi setelah di-clean, space di drive C cuma berubah 1 GB. Entah saya kurang paham kenapa.

Lalu coba hapus ISI FOLDER “C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution”. Lumayan, dari situ bisa free up 5 GB. Bisa googling sendiri untuk info lebih lanjutnya.

Tapi pencarian nggak berhenti disitu. Sampai akhirnya nemu ada software yang namanya “Patch Cleaner” seperti di gambar. Jadi software ini digunakan untuk mensortir mana file-file installer (.msi atau .msp) yang sudah tidak terpakai sehingga bisa dihapus. Dari situ, alhamdulillah bisa free up space di drive C sampai 28,21 GB!!! Jadi ternyata selama ini file-file system yang ada di drive C banyak yang sudah tidak terpakai alias usang alias kalau di software ini disebut orphaned file.

Dan oke, saya nggak akan bahas lebih lanjut karena udah banyak review-nya di google. Dari sini saya sudah merasa cukup puas dan tidak melanjutkan pencarian karena space di drive C sudah lumayan lega, alhamdulillah. 

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YSK if your Windows folder has gotten way too big, you can shave off a few gigabytes using PatchCleaner

YSK if your Windows folder has gotten way too big, you can shave off a few gigabytes using PatchCleaner

If the C:\Windows folder on your computer has grown over time to take up a lot of space (>30 GB) it's because Windows is bad at housekeeping and doesn't like to delete old/outdated Windows update related files.

These old files (along with the new ones) are stored in C:\Windows\Installer and you can't blindly delete anything in there without breaking Windows.

I couldn't update to Windows 10 from 8.1 because there just wasn't enough free space in my Windows drive to download and prepare the files for the upgrade. That's when I found out about PatchCleaner.

It's a free tool that will identify old/orphaned patch files that are no longer needed and will delete them, reclaiming some much needed free space. When you run it, it'll tell you how much free space you stand to gain from deleting these files. On average, it'll be between 10-15 GB or more. You can then choose to either:

Delete the files

Move them to another location (in case you want to play it safe).

Download: http://www.homedev.com.au/Free/PatchCleaner